Mount Kassot (Cretaceous to of Niger)

Also known as Lapparent site 17b, Iguallala

Where: Tahoua, Niger (17.5° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tegama Group, Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 93.5 Ma)

• "upper part of 'Continental intercalaire', just below the Cenomanian-Turonian limestone" and the highest part of the Tegama - but could be the Farak Formation (listed as such in Weishampel et al. 2004).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and claystone

• clays and sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Lapparent & J. Greigert

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Les Dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Saharal central [The dinosaurs of the "Continental Intercalaire" of the central Sahara]. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, nouvelle série 39(88A):1-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 25220: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Rebbachisaurus tamesnensis Lapparent 1957 sauropod