Wadha (Jurassic of Somalia)

Also known as Wad, Wadh

Where: Somalia (8.9° N, 46.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.6° S, 31.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Base of Jurassic" But the eudoxus zone the author cites is now known to be Late Kimmeridgian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified 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 161812: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 13.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Plagiostoma) cf. astartina Thurmann 1859 file clam
 Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
"Ceromyopsis somaliensis" = Ceratomyopsis somaliensis
"Ceromyopsis somaliensis" = Ceratomyopsis somaliensis Weir 1929 clam