Rio Benito (Cretaceous to of Equatorial Guinea)

Where: Equatorial Guinea (1.6° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 12.3° S, 2.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Eastman assigned an early Tertiary age ("probably at least as early as the dawn of the Eocene") based his assessment of the fishes, but they are now considered Aptian-Albian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, black, carbonaceous shale

• "appearances indicate very strongly that they are of lacustrine, or perhaps estuarine origin, certainly not marine"
• Dark-colored fissile shale, containing an abundance of carbonaceous matter, with here and there a few small-sized concretions, valves of Entomostraca, and portions of teleost fish-skeletons, these last being comparatively numerous

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by A.I. Good; reposited in the CM

Primary reference: C. R. Eastman. 1912. Tertiary fish-remains from Spanish Guinea in west Africa. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 8:370-378 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129869: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Raghav Sehtia on 29.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
? Enchodus sp.
? Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835
 Ellimmichthyiformes - Ellimmichthyidae
"Diplomystus goodi n. sp." = Ellimmichthys goodi
"Diplomystus goodi n. sp." = Ellimmichthys goodi Eastman 1912
 Ellimmichthyiformes -
Diplomystus sp.
Diplomystus sp. Cope 1877