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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Palaeophis colossaeus Rage 1983 snake CNRST-SUNY 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 307, 308, 309, 310
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