Where: Tahoua, Niger (17.0° N, 4.3° E: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 0.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• suggested Montian age
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Garde & Laperrine
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75234: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea laperrinei" = Crassostrea laperrinei
"Ostrea laperrinei" = Crassostrea laperrinei Lemoine 1910 oyster | |
Echinoidea | |
Plesiolampas saharae Bather 1904 sea urchin | |
Linthia sudanensis Bather 1904 heart urchin |