Where: Cameroon (4.5° N, 9.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 6.1° S, 9.3° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mungo River Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wilsing
• Repository: Geologischen Museum zu Göttingen
Primary reference: A. von Koenen. 1898. Nachtrag zu Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:49-65 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191895: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.02.2018
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Taxonomic list
| Cephalopoda | |
? Hoplitoides "n. sp.", Hoplitoides latesellatus n. sp., "Hoplitoides ingens" = Hoplitoides ingens, "Hoplitoides wilsingi n. sp." = Hoplitoides ingens
? Hoplitoides "n. sp." von Koenen 1898 ammonite
Hoplitoides latesellatus n. sp. von Koenen 1898 ammonite
"Hoplitoides ingens" = Hoplitoides ingens von Koenen 1897 ammonite
"Hoplitoides wilsingi n. sp." = Hoplitoides ingens von Koenen 1897 ammonite | |
"Pulchellia perovalis" = Neoptychites cephalotus
"Pulchellia perovalis" = Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite | |
"Desmoceras kamerunense n. sp." = Pachydesmoceras kamerunense
"Desmoceras kamerunense n. sp." = Pachydesmoceras kamerunense von Koenen 1898 ammonite | |
| Gastropoda | |
Aporrhais semilaevis n. sp.
Aporrhais semilaevis n. sp. von Koenen 1898 snail | |