Where: Togo (6.3° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 4.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: P11 foram zone, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• deposits simply referred to as the Kpogame-Hahotoe phosphates

•Type locality is the highly fossiliferous stratigraphic level near the top of mining level Couche-1, the ‘‘bone-bed reposant’’ (BBR)

•Planktonic foraminiferal zone P11 in the middle Lutetian, middle Eocene (Cappetta and Traverse, 1988; zone E9 of Berggren and Pearson, 2005).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: H. Cappetta and M. Traverse. 1988. Une riche faune de Selaciens dans le Bassin a Phosphate de Kpogame-Hahotoe (Eocene moyen du Togo): Note preliminaire et precisions sur la structure et l'age du gisement. Geobios 21(3):359-365 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32991: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.07.2003

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