Where: Agadez, Niger (16.5° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 4.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Elrhaz Formation (Tegama Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• "niveau des innocents" within the El Rhaz Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by P. Taquet in 1965, 1970, 1972–1973; reposited in the MNHN
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. Taquet. 1967. Découvertes paléontologiques récentes dans le Nord du Niger [Recent paleontological discoveries in the north of Niger]. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 163:415-418 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37200: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.03.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Mawsonia tegamensis n. sp.8
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Reptilia | |
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Sarcosuchus imperator de Broin and Taquet 1966 crocodilian | |
"Valdosaurus nigeriensis n. sp." = Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis2
"Valdosaurus nigeriensis n. sp." = Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis2 Galton and Taquet 1982 ornithopod MNHN GDF 332, femur
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Cristatusaurus lapparenti n. gen. n. sp.7
Cristatusaurus lapparenti n. gen. n. sp.7 Taquet and Russell 1998 tetanuran theropod GDF 365, 366, neural arch
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Actinopteri | |
Pliodetes nigeriensis n. gen. n. sp.9
Pliodetes nigeriensis n. gen. n. sp.9 Wenz 1999 gar MNHN-GDF 1275: Referred specimens - MNHN GDF-1274 to 1281, GD-1285-1309
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Paradoxopteris stromeri | |
Paradoxopteris stromeri5 Hirmer 1927 |