Mali20, unit 7, Tamaguélelt (Eocene of Mali)

Also known as Mali-20c (unit 7); Mali 20c

Where: Mali (17.6° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 4.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tamaguélelt Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Unit 7 (upper phosphate)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; phosphatic conglomerate

• phosphate conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1999, 2003, 2009; reposited in the AMNH

• Repository: Stony Brook University (CRNST-SUNY), now transferred to AMNH

Primary reference: J. A. McCartney, E. M. Roberts, Tapanila and M. A. O'Leary. 2018. Large palaeophiid and nigerophiid snakes from Paleogene Trans-Saharan Seaway deposits of Mali. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63(2):207-220 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114961: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 26.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Palaeophis colossaeus Rage 1983 snake
CNRST-SUNY 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 307, 308, 309, 310