Malka Dakka (Jurassic of Kenya)

Also known as Malka Dakatcha

Where: Kenya (4.0° N, 41.5° E: paleocoordinates 17.5° S, 24.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified limestone

• "soft intercalated dirt beds" (between two limestone beds so presumed poorly 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 161825: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 13.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Lophrothyris aff. subsella" = Xestosina subsella
"Lophrothyris aff. subsella" = Xestosina subsella Leymerie 1846