Outcrop 67, Ediki, Mungo River (Cretaceous of Cameroon)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mungo River Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mungo River Fm. AGE: Late Turonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the lower part of the formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Presumably an shallow carbonate marine facies.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by R.A. Reyment in 1953; reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTOR: R.A. Reyment. REPOSITORY: BMNH.

Primary reference: R. A. Reyment. 1954. The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 76:661-683 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82788: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Ammonoidea. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with somewhat antiquated nomenclature. Mostly identified to species resolution.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula instabilis
Plicatula instabilis Stoliczka 1871 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Romaniceras aff. deveroide, Romaniceras uchauxiense
Romaniceras uchauxiense Collignon 1939 ammonite