Bivalvia, Schenck collection, Ameki (Eocene of Nigeria)
Where: Nigeria (5.0° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 1.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Ameki Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; green, argillaceous, sandy mudstone and sandstone
• The formation is predominantly greenish-grey clayey sandstone and sandy claystone. It may locally show shaley development or inclusions of white and mottled claystone and sandstone. The typical greenish gray mudstone includes variable amounts of interbedded sandstone.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Chavan. 1938. Un groupe africain de carditidés, Cossmannella Mayer-Eymar. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 8(1):3-10 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60711: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.05.2006, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Foraminifera, ostracods, fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods are compiled by Adegoke (1968) as occurring in this formation, no specific locality information is given.
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unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
"Globigerina dutertrei" = Neogloboquadrina dutertrei, "Globigerina pachyderma" = Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, "Pullenia obliquiloculata" = Pulleniatina obliquiloculata
"Globigerina dutertrei" = Neogloboquadrina dutertrei d'Orbigny 1839
"Globigerina pachyderma" = Neogloboquadrina pachyderma Ehrenberg 1861
"Pullenia obliquiloculata" = Pulleniatina obliquiloculata Parker and Jones 1865 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Spiroloculina excavata d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Foraminifera | |
"Textularia globulosa" = Heterohelix globulosa
"Textularia globulosa" = Heterohelix globulosa Ehrenberg 1840 | |
"Globigerina cretacea" = Archaeoglobigerina cretacea
"Globigerina cretacea" = Archaeoglobigerina cretacea d'Orbigny 1840 | |
Nodosariata | |
Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Textularia gramen dOrbigny 1846 | |
Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myliobatis toliapicus, "Myliobatis striatus" = Aetomylaeus striatus, "Myliobatis dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni
Myliobatis toliapicus Agassiz 1843 eagle ray
"Myliobatis striatus" = Aetomylaeus striatus Agassiz 1843 eagle ray
"Myliobatis dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni Agassiz 1843 eagle ray | |
Rhinoptera sherborni White 1926 cownose ray | |
"Odontaspis koerti" = Brachycarcharias koerti
"Odontaspis koerti" = Brachycarcharias koerti Stromer 1910 sand tiger shark Odontaspis koerti and Odontaspis koerti itoriensis
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"Oxyrhina desori" = Isurus oxyrinchus, Carcharodon debrayi
Carcharodon debrayi Leriche 1906 white shark | |
Galeocerdo latidens Agassiz 1835 tiger shark | |
Hypoprion overricus White 1926 requiem shark
Aprionodon amekiensis White 1926 requiem shark | |
Pristis mucrodens White 1926 sawfish
Pristis hamatus White 1926 sawfish
Pristis lathami Galeotti 1837 sawfish
Propristis schweinfurthi Priem 1897 sawfish | |
Actinopteri | |
Sphyraena lugardi White 1926 barracuda | |
Scombramphodon woodwardi White 1926 | |
Otolithus (Sciaena) simplex Frost 1926 | |
Crenilabrus eocenicus White 1926
Pseudosphaerodon pycnodoides White 1926
Platylaemus nigeriensis White 1926 | |
Otolithus (Pagellus) concavus Frost 1926 perch-like fish | |
Chrysichthys eaglesomei White 1926 catfish | |
Otolithus (Arius) africanus, Otolithus (Arius) angulatus, Arius kitsoni, Otolithus (Arius) amekiensis, Arius hewardbelli
Otolithus (Arius) africanus Frost 1926 Ariid catfish
Otolithus (Arius) angulatus Frost 1926 Ariid catfish
Arius kitsoni White 1926 Ariid catfish
Otolithus (Arius) amekiensis Frost 1926 Ariid catfish
Arius hewardbelli White 1926 Ariid catfish | |
Osteichthyes | |
Cylindracanthus rectus Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish | |
Malacostraca | |
Holcocarcinus sulcatus Withers 1924 crab | |
Ostracoda | |
Bythocypris alejo ostracod | |
Loxoconcha lagosensis ostracod | |
Basslerites abalidiegwuensis ostracod | |
Cephalopoda | |
Bivalvia | |
"Venericardia cf. planicosta" = Venericor planicosta, Cossmannella costaenodulosis, Cossmannella triparticostata, Cossmannella costaeirregularis
"Venericardia cf. planicosta" = Venericor planicosta Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Truncatulina | |