Where: Maritime, Togo (6.3° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 4.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• Miller assigned an Early Eocene age, but later publications place Adabion in the Thanetian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. K. Miller. 1951. Tertiary nautiloids of west-coastal Africa. Annales du Museé du Congo Belge Tervuren, Sciences Géologiques 8:1-88 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167948: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 09.04.2015, edited by Mark Uhen, Philip Mannion and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Deltoidonautilus togoensis n. sp.
Deltoidonautilus togoensis n. sp. Miller 1951 nautiloid | |
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines2
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"aff. Aphelopsis sp." = Calamagras2
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Actinopteri | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
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"Alopiopsis (? Physodon) secundus" = Physodon secundus2
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"Odontaspis cuspidata" = Araloselachus cuspidatus2, "Otodus koerti n. sp." = Brachycarcharias koerti2
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"Odontaspis elegans" = Striatolamia macrota2
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Hypolophites myliobatoides n. gen. n. sp.2
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"Myliobatis dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni2, "Myliobatis cf. striatus" = Aetomylaeus striatus2, Myliobatis sp.2
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