Rukesa (Lowest Muddy 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, muddy limestone

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 161807: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 13.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya rugosa Roemer 1836 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys aff. palmyrensis Krumbeck 1905 scallop
cast of a left vavle