List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
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? Enchodus sp.
Agassiz 1835
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Actinopteri
- Ellimmichthyiformes
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Diplomystus sp.
Cope 1877
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Actinopteri
- Ellimmichthyiformes
- Ellimmichthyidae
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Diplomystus goodi n. sp.
Eastman 1912
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| recombined as Ellimmichthys goodi | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Equatorial Guinea |
| Coordinates: | 1.6° North, 9.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.3° South, 2.3° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Eastman assigned an early Tertiary age ("probably at least as early as the dawn of the Eocene") based his assessment of the fishes, but they are now considered Aptian-Albian. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black lithified carbonaceous "shale" |
| Lithology description: Dark-colored fissile shale, containing an abundance of carbonaceous matter, with here and there a few small-sized concretions, valves of Entomostraca, and portions of teleost fish-skeletons, these last being comparatively numerous | |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: "appearances indicate very strongly that they are of lacustrine, or perhaps estuarine origin, certainly not marine" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | CM |
| Collectors: | A.I. Good |
Metadata
| Database number: | 129869 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | R. Sehtia |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-06-29 06:42:44 | Last modified: | 2013-12-16 17:04:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-06-29 06:42:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49467. | C. R. Eastman. 1912. Tertiary fish-remains from Spanish Guinea in west Africa. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 8:370-378 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |