Badattino (Jurassic of Ethiopia)

Where: Ethiopia (9.5° N, 38.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.4° S, 23.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• dark brown marly limestone and gray-brown limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: E. Dacque. 1905. Beiträge zur Geologie des Somalilandes, 2. Teil. Oberer Jura [Contributions to the geology of Somaliland, Part 2. Upper Jurassic]. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 17:119-160 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94587: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Terebratula subsella" = Xestosina subsella
"Terebratula subsella" = Xestosina subsella Leymerie 1846
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiola sp." = Modiolus
"Modiola sp." = Modiolus Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima cf. harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis
"Lima cf. harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis Dacque 1905 file clam
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Alectryonia pulligera" = Actinostreon gregareum, "Alectryonia rastellaris" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Alectryonia pulligera" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
"Alectryonia rastellaris" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster