Cox - 110 (E. Tanganyika): Late/Upper Oxfordian, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Bourguetia saemanni
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
? Protocardia sp. (Beyrich 1845)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania
Coordinates: 6.3° South, 38.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.4° South, 17.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oxfordian
Age range of interval:157.90000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
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:36420
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-01-29 01:06:11 Last modified:2004-01-29 03:26:21
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-29 01:06:11
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]