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A new Campanile from the Palaeocene of Western Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

O. S. Adegoke  and
T. F. J. Dessauvagie
O. S. Adegoke
Affiliation:
Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 20560, U.S.A.
T. F. J. Dessauvagie
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Summary

Campanile nigeriense sp. nov. is described and figured from the Palaeocene Ewekoro Formation of Western Nigeria. Its juvenile whorls characteristically have four smooth and broad spiral ribs while adult whorls are completely smooth. Vertical ornamentations are lacking. This second record of Campanile from West African Palaeocene strata suggests that the genus may be a stratigraphically useful index fossil in West Africa.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 107 , Issue 4 , July 1970 , pp. 327 - 333
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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