Taiba Ndiaye: Lutetian, Senegal
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
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Coupatezia sp.
Cappetta 1982
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Dasyatidae
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Dasyatis sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Burnhamia sp.
Cappetta 1976
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Rhinobatos sp.
Link 1790
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Scyliorhinidae
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Abdounia sp.
Cappetta 1980
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Galeocerdo latidens
(Agassiz 1835)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Orectolobiformes
- Hemiscylliidae
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Chiloscyllium aff. meraense
Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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? Brachycarcharias sp.
Cappetta and Nolf 2005
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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"Carcharias" koerti
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Macrorhizodus praecursor
(Leriche 1905)
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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"Carcharocles" cf. debrayi
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Otodus obliquus
Agassiz 1838
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Acipenseriformes
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Cylindracanthus sp.
Leidy 1856
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Prorastomidae
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Prorastomidae indet.
Cope 1889
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Protocetidae
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Protocetidae indet.
Stromer 1908
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Hautier et al. 2014 | 1 specimen | |||||
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= cf. Carolinacetus sp.
Geisler et al. 2005
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Vautrin et al. 2019 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Senegal |
| Coordinates: | 15.0° North, 16.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.1° North, 21.3° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Taiba | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower Lutetian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphatic phosphorite |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: marl and limestones. pinkish phosphate of lime constituted by phosphatic grains in a phosphatic and/or clay matrix with rare flints | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 133429 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-09-13 06:47:58 | Last modified: | 2019-09-06 18:13:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-09-13 06:47:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42984. | L. Hautier, R. Sarr, R. Tabuce, F. Lihoreau, S. Adnet, D. P. Domning, M. Samb and P. M. Hameh. 2012. First prorastomid sirenian from Senegal (Western Africa) and the Old World origin of sea cows. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(5):1218-1222 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 53851 | L. Hautier, R. Sarr, F. Lihoreau, R. Tabuce, and P. M. Hameh. 2014. First record of the family Protocetidae in the Lutetian of Senegal (West Africa). Palaeovertebrata 38(2):e1-37 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 70073 | Q. Vautrin, F. Lihoreau, B. Sambou, M. Thiam, J. E. Martin, R. Tabuce, S. Adnet, R. Lebrun, A.-L. Charruault, R. Sarr, and L. Hautier. 2019. From limb to fin: An Eocene protocetid forelimb from Senegal sheds new light on the early locomotor evolution of Cetaceans. Palaeontology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |