Dakatch (Daua Limestone) (Jurassic of Somalia)

Also known as Dikatch

Where: Somalia (1.8° N, 42.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.2° S, 24.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daua Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• not earlier than Callovian and probably Corallian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• sandy limestone, very fossiliferous

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 161821: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 13.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya aff. percarinata Gillieron 1886 clam
Pholadomya sp. aff. percarinata (seven casts)