Where: Nigeria (5.2° N, 8.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 1.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nkporo Shale Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• basal Nkporo Shale
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: probably own field collection
Primary reference: P. M. P. Zaborski. 1982. Campanian and Maastrichtian sphenodiscid ammonites from southern Nigeria. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geol.) 36(4):303-332 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69692: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.03.2007, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Libycoceras crossense n. sp.2
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Reptilia | |
Pluridens calabaria n. sp.1
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