Where: Mali (19.9° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 3.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Tichet, Ménaka, Teberemt Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 56.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1999 - 2003
Primary reference: M. A. O'Leary, M. L. Bouare, K. Heilbronn, R. V. Hill, J. McCartney, J. A. Sessa, F. Sissoko, L. Tapanila, E. Wheeler and E. M. Roberts. 2019. Stratigraphy and Paleobiology of the Upper Cretaceous - Lower Paleogene Sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 436:1-177 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 202356: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.07.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Stromboidea indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail | |
? Calyptraphorus sp. Conrad 1857 snail | |
? Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837 moon snail | |
? Cerithioidea indet. Férussac 1819 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Libycoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinotiara perebaskinei Lambert 1930 sea urchin | |
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944 |