Dabeir (Daua Limestone) (Jurassic of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (3.5° N, 40.2° E: paleocoordinates 17.5° S, 22.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daua Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Upper Kimmeridgian or Tithonian based on ammonites "not older than Corallian and probably Kimmeridgian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, red, yellow limestone

• compact, shelly limestone. tough reddish-yellow

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 161485: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte minima d'Ossat 1900 clam
fragmentary cast
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
1 valve (right?)
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Limatula) elliptica Whiteaves 1861 file clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Lophrothyris aff. subsella" = Xestosina subsella
"Lophrothyris aff. subsella" = Xestosina subsella Leymerie 1846