Mali21 (Paleocene to of Mali)

Where: Mali (17.7° N, 0.3° E: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 4.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Teberemt, Tamaguélelt, Continental Terminal Formation, Paleocene to Paleocene (66.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic conglomerate

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 202364: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.07.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Cimomia ogbei Adegoke 1977 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea -
Trochoidea indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida -
Ostreida indet. FĂ«russac 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
 Pholadida - Raetomyidae
Raetomya schweinfurthi Mayer-Eymar 1887 clam