Mali1 (Cretaceous to of Mali)

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
? Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha -
? Stromboidea indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
? Calyptraphorus sp. Conrad 1857 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
? Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837 moon snail
 Cerithioidea -
? Cerithioidea indet. Férussac 1819 snail
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Libycoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Echinoidea
 Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
Echinotiara perebaskinei Lambert 1930 sea urchin
 Ichnofossils -
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
Burrows were not collected but documented in a field photo.
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944