Where: Agadez, Niger (16.5° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 4.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Elrhaz Formation (Tegama Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 112.0 Ma)
• "probably of late Aptian age"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by P. Taquet in 1966, 1970, 1972; 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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77189: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.12.2007, edited by Matthew Carrano and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
Osteichthyes | |
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus2
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"Ceratodus tiguidiensis" = Arganodus tiguidiensis2
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Actinopteri | |
Pycnodontidae indet.2 Agassiz 1833 | |
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar |