Tanout, Damergou: Late/Upper Cretaceous, Niger
collected by Chevalier & Loubet

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Onchosaurus pharao (Dames 1887)
Acipenseriformes
Cylindracanthus bisulcatus Arambourg and Joleaud 1943
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus lamberti Arambourg and Joleaud 1943
16 specimens
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Coelodus sp. Haeckel
Tabaste 1963 1 specimen
Coelodus plethodon Arambourg and Joleaud 1943
Acrotemnus faba Agassiz 1837
13 specimens
unclassified
Paralepidosteus africanus n. gen., n. sp. Arambourg and Joleaud 1943
5 specimens
Reptilia - Aegyptosuchidae
? Aegyptosuchus sp. Stromer 1933
3 specimens
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Dipnomorpha - Neoceratodontidae
Ceratodus africanus Haug 1905
5 specimens
recombined as Neoceratodus africanus
Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838
1 specimen
Ceratodus humei Priem 1914
8 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Niger State/province:Zinder
Coordinates: 17.9° North, 8.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.0° North, 4.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5-8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Chevalier & Loubet
Metadata
Database number:75235
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-09-28 12:44:13 Last modified:2019-12-06 15:32:53
Access level:the public Released:2007-09-28 12:44:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
25402.ETE C. Arambourg and L. Joleaud. 1943. Vertébrés fossiles du bassin du Niger [Fossil vertebrates of the Niger basin]. Bulletin de la Service des Mines de l'Afrique Occidentale Française 7:28-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

71151 N. Tabaste. 1963. Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous]. Mélanges Ichthyologiques Dédiés à la Mémoire d’Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). Mémoires de l’Institute Français d’Afrique Noire 68:437-485 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]