Also known as Tobène pit; Tobene; Taiba Ndiaye
Where: Senegal (15.0° N, 16.8° W: paleocoordinates 15.0° N, 17.1° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Tentatively suggested to be from the Kerian AFLMA, most likely between 4.4 and 4 Ma (Lihoreau et al. 2021)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar & Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution of Montpellier in 2012-2015
Primary reference: F. Lihoreau, R. Sarr, D. Chardon, J.-R. Boisserie, R. Lebrun, S. Adnet, J. E. Martin, L. Pallas, B. Sambou, R. Tabuce, M. M. Thiam and L. Hautier. 2021. A fossil terrestrial fauna from Tobène (Senegal) provides a unique early Pliocene window in western Africa. Gondwana Research 99:21-35 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 221108: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.07.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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