Dakatch (grey limestone) (Jurassic of Somalia)

Also known as Dikatch

Where: Somalia (1.8° N, 42.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.0° S, 24.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Oxfordian-Corallian based on belemnites and C. helvetica.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• slaty-grey limestone with buff-colored weathering

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 161816: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 13.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Mantellum) cf. duplicata Carle Sowerby 1827 file clam