Qoton (upper Bihin Limestone) (Jurassic to of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.4° N, 43.2° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° S, 28.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bihin Limestone Formation, Bathonian to Bathonian (168.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• compact 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 161817: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 13.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus autissiodorensis Cotteau 1853 mussel
1 fragment, 1 complete specimen with right valve crushed
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925
large suite of specimens