Bihendula (Meragalleh Limestone, mudstones) (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.2° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.6° S, 29.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Meragalleh Limestone Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• based on unspecified Kimmeridgian ammonites

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous mudstone and lithified, calcareous shale

• calcaerous mudstone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.G. Glenday

• Repository: Hunterian Museum

Primary reference: J. Weir. 1929. Jurassic Fossils from Jubaland, East Africa, Collected by V. G. Glenday, And the Jurassic Geology of Somaliland. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University 1-63 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161478: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Plagiostoma) notata de Loriol 1878 file clam
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya excentrica Roemer 1836 clam