Fauna 12, 36.3-36.7 km from Calabar, south-east Nigeria (Cretaceous of Nigeria)

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

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Taxonomic list

• Focus on ammonites.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Libycoceras crossense n. sp.2 Zaborski 1982 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Nostoceras sp.2 Hyatt 1894 ammonite
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Pluridens calabaria n. sp.1 Longrich 2016 mosasaur
NHMUK R9804 - type