Mungo River, profil I, bed 6d (Cretaceous of Cameroon)

Where: Cameroon (4.5° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.8° S, 0.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mungo River Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Harbort, C. Guillemain

• Repository: Preußischen geologischen Landesanstalt, Berlin

Primary reference: L. Riedel. 1933. Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna. Beiträge zur Geologischen Erforschung der Deutschen Schutzgebiete 16:1-154 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209657: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Poromyida - Poromyidae
Liopistha ventricosa von Koenen 1897 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
? Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam