Where: Somalia (2.0° N, 42.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.0° S, 24.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)
• "Oolitico medio", unit e
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: G. Stefanini. 1939. Molluschi del Giuralias della Somalia, Gasteropodi e Lamellibranchi [Jurassic molluscs from Somalia, gastropods and bivalves]. Palaeontographia Italica 32(4):103-270 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94525: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus (Modiola) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Mytilus (Modiola) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
Camptonectes aff. buchi, "Camptonectes suprajurensis" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus
Camptonectes aff. buchi scallop
"Camptonectes suprajurensis" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop | |
Gresslya peregrina Phillips 1829 clam | |
"Isodonta triangularis" = Sowerbya
"Isodonta triangularis" = Sowerbya clam | |
Venilicardia hunti Cox 1935 clam | |
Pholadomya aequalis clam |