Where: Kenya (3.5° S, 39.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 19.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: J. Weir. 1930. Mesozoic Brachiopoda and Mollusca from Mombasa. In M. M. Wood (ed.), Reports on geological collections from the coastlands of Kenya Colony. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum Glasgow University 4:73-102 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99866: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Arctostrea hastellata oyster | |
Exogyra solea Müller 1900 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnopsis tanganensis Futt 1894 belemnite |