Also known as Mantas, Mantess
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 R. Lambert
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 75233: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Dyrosaurus sp. Pomel 1894 crocodilian | |
Actinopteri | |
Siluridae indet. Cuvier 1816 catfish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon Agassiz 1843 goblin shark | |
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray |