Sancurar (Jurassic to of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (1.8° N, 42.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.2° S, 24.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)

• "Oolitico medio"

• 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 94545: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Procerithium sp. Cossmann 1902 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes virdunensis Buvignier 1852 scallop
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda acuta" = Nuculana acuta
"Leda acuta" = Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam