Cox - 32 (S.E. Tanganyika): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Modiolus perplicatus
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Oxytomidae
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Meleagrinella radiata
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Entoliidae
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Entolium corneolum
(Young and Bird 1828)
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| recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Liostrea sp.
Douvillé 1904
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Parallelodontidae
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Grammatodon irritans
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Protocardia schencki
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Anisocardia kinjeleensis n. sp.
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Pleuromyidae
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Pleuromya uniformis
Sowerby 1813
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Geography
| Country: | Tanzania |
| Coordinates: | 9.7° South, 39.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.4° South, 16.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Member: | Indogrammatodon Bed |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 36310 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-01-25 07:05:07 | Last modified: | 2004-01-26 12:13:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-25 07:05:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9748. | L. R. Cox. 1965. Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Supplement I [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen] |