Mungo River, profil I, bed 6b: Early/Lower Turonian, Cameroon
collected by E. Harbort, C. Guillemain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya incurvata n. sp.
Riedel 1933
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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? Aporrhais sp.
da Costa 1778
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Geography
| Country: | Cameroon |
| Coordinates: | 4.5° North, 9.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.8° South, 0.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mungo River |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | E. Harbort, C. Guillemain |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Preußischen geologischen Landesanstalt, Berlin | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 209656 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2020-05-09 17:30:28 | Last modified: | 2020-05-09 17:30:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-05-09 17:30:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 72318. | 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] |