Vertebrate fossils from Cameroon, West Africa

Abstract

ABSTRACT Fossil vertebrates discovered in 1986 from Cameroon, West Africa, occur in three different areas in the northern part of the country. Cretaceous rocks northeast of Garoua, in the Babouri-Figuil Basin, yield complete Lepidotes skeletons. Southeast of Garoua, Cretaceous rocks of the Mayo Rey Basin, near Koum, are more clearly terrestrial and contain diverse vertebrates. The Hama Koussou Basin, just north of Garoua, produces fragmentary Lepidotes and dinosaurs. Weathered from a veneer of Pleistocene sediment overlying the latter deposit, the well fossilized remains of Equus, Phacochoerus, and a bovid were recovered.