Rukesa (Lowest Sandy Fossiliferous Limestone) (Jurassic of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 41.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 23.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daua Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• "Corallian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, red, sandy limestone

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 161802: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 13.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Arctostrea rastellaris" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Arctostrea rastellaris" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
valve of an immature shell