Anole Issa, Oolitico medio (Jurassic to of Somalia)

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Mytilus (Modiola) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Mytilus (Modiola) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Camptonectes suprajurensis" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Gresslya peregrina Phillips 1829 clam
 Cardiida - Sowerbyidae
"Isodonta triangularis" = Sowerbya
"Isodonta triangularis" = Sowerbya clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Venilicardia hunti Cox 1935 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae