Dombe-Grande (couches à Acteonella anchietai) (Cretaceous of Angola)

Where: Angola (13.0° S, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 28.9° S, 1.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coporolo Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Malheiro in 1882-1886

Primary reference: P. Choffat and P. de Loriol. 1888. Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 30(2):1-116 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210856: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerinea capelloi Choffat 1888 snail
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
Acteonella anchietai n. sp. Choffat 1888 snail
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Avellana buechneri n. sp. Choffat 1888 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium silvaportoi n. sp. Choffat 1888 cerith snail
Echinoidea
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
"Stigmatopygus malheiroi n. sp." = Phyllobrissus freitasii
"Stigmatopygus malheiroi n. sp." = Phyllobrissus freitasii White 1887 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Epiaster catumbellensis de Loriol 1888 heart urchin