Where: Ethiopia (10.0° N, 38.3° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 28.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• unit 1: 1920-1955 m
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: G. Ficcarelli. 1968. Fossili Giuresi della serie sedimentaria del Nilo Azurro meridionale [Jurassic fossils from the sedimentary series of the southern Blue Nile]. Rivista Italiana di paleontologia e Stratigrafia 74(1):23-50 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94494: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni Muir-Wood 1935
Somalirhynchia somalica Dacque 1905 | |
"Terebratula" sp. Müller 1776 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis, "Modiolus cf. imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis de Loriol 1883 mussel
"Modiolus cf. imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
Musculus somaliensis Cox 1935 mussel | |
Gryphaea costellata Douvillé 1916 oyster | |
"Lima (Plagiostoma) aff. harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis
"Lima (Plagiostoma) aff. harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis Dacque 1905 file clam | |
"Pholadomya somaliensis" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) somaliensis, Homomya inornata
"Pholadomya somaliensis" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) somaliensis Cox 1935 clam
Homomya inornata Sowerby 1837 clam | |
Thracia viceliacensis d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Anisocardia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam | |
Mactromya daghaniensis Cox 1935 clam
Mactromya aequalis Agassiz 1843 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Ampullella sp." = Ampullina
"Ampullella sp." = Ampullina Férussac 1822 snail | |
"Pterocera sp." = Lambis
"Pterocera sp." = Lambis Röding 1798 conch |