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 | |
Lima (Plagiostoma) cf. astartina Thurmann 1859 file clam |