Mali20, unit 2, Tamaguélelt (Eocene of Mali)

Also known as Mali-20; Mali 20; Mali-20a; Mali 20a

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Unit 2 (lower phosphate)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; phosphatic conglomerate

• phosphate conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1999, 2003

Primary reference: M. A. O’Leary, E. M. Roberts, M. Bouare, F. Sissoko, and L. Tapanila. 2006. Malian Paenungulata (Mammalia: Placentalia): New African Afrotheres from the Early Eocene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(4):981-988 [P. Coster/P. Coster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175262: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 08.12.2015, edited by Philip Mannion and Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
Pholadidae indet.3 Lamarck 1809 clam
pholad in coprolite
Osteichthyes
 Acipenseriformes -
Cylindracanthus sp.2 Leidy 1856 ray-finned fish
 Ceratodontiformes - Lepidosirenidae
Protopterus elongus2 african lungfish
Mammalia
 Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
Pliohyracidae indet. Matsumoto 1926 hyrax
BMNH-M-50135
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
? Proboscidea indet. proboscidean
BMNH-M-50129
 Proboscidea -
Plesielephantiformes indet.2 Shoshani 2001 proboscidean
 Proboscidea - Numidotheriidae
Numidotheriidae indet. Shoshani and Tassy 1996 proboscidean
BMNH-M-51534
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Serpentes indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 snake
CNRST-SUNY 324
 Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Palaeophis colossaeus1 Rage 1983 snake
CNRST-SUNY specimens
 Loricata - Dyrosauridae
Phosphatosaurus gavialoides2 Bergounioux 1955 crocodilian
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Maliamia gigas2 Patterson and Longbottom 1989 bowfin
 Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae
Brychaetus sp.2 Agassiz 1845 arowana
 Aulopiformes - Dercetidae
Stratodus apicalis2 Cope 1872
 Siluriformes - Claroteidae
 Ichnofossils -
Gastrochaenolites ornatus2 Kelly and Bromley 1984