Where: Nigeria (10.5° N, 11.8° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 0.9° N, 13.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vascoceras cauvini ammonoid zone, Kanawa Limestones Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Gadeni subzone, gadeni horizon
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P. Courville in 1988-1990
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: D. Néraudeau and P. Courville. 1997. Cenomanian and Turonian echinoids from Nigeria. Geobios 30(6):835-847 [C. Marshall/S. Low/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4059: authorized by Charles Marshall, entered by Sofy Low on 13.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Micropedina olisiponensis Forbes in Sharpe 1850 sea urchin |