Sa Warabis, 235-238 (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.2° N, 43.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 27.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Daghani Shale Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• samples 235-238, Middle Kimmeridgian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale and lithified grainstone

• shales alternating with subordinate marly shales and rare thin beds of calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: E. Abbate, G. Ficcarelli, C. Pirini Radrizzani, A. Salvietti, D. Torre and A. Turi. 1974. Jurassic sequences from the Somali coast of the Gulf of Aden. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 80(3):409-478 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100376: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.12.2010

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Subplanites spathi