Meragalleh (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (8.5° N, 47.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° S, 31.3° 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 161813: 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