Where: Congo-Brazzaville (4.8° S, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 1.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• Based on Peroniceras czornigi
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Musée Royal de Congo Belge, Tervuren
Primary reference: E. Dartevelle and S. Freneix. 1957. Mollusques fossiles du Crétace de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique du Cameroun à l'Angola. II. - Lamellibranches. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Série in-8, Sciences Géologiques 20:1-271 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 1368: authorized by Dave Jablonski, entered by Dave Jablonski on 06.01.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Scapanorhynchus raphiodon" = Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon
"Scapanorhynchus raphiodon" = Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon Agassiz 1843 goblin shark | |
Bivalvia | |
Pseudolimea interplicosa Stoliczka 1871 file clam | |
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi, Plicatula hirsuta
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop
Plicatula hirsuta Coquand 1880 scallop | |
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Trigonarca camerunensis Riedel 1933 clam | |
Paraesa cf. faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam
Anofia aro Reyment 1955 venus clam | |
Veniella auressensis clam
Agelasina plenodonta Riedel 1933 clam | |
Astarte similis Munster 1840 clam |