Daghani, bed 224 (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 29.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bihen Limestone Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• brownish-grey limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1935. Jurassic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 148-197 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92996: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha costata Sowerby 1825 oyster
 Ostreida - Eligmidae
Eligmus rollandi Douvillé 1907 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina cf. lirata Phillips 1829 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya daghaniensis n. sp. Cox 1935 clam
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Eocallista krenkeli Cox 1935 clam