Where: Somalia (10.2° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.6° S, 29.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Meragalleh Limestone Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• based on unspecified Kimmeridgian ammonites
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous mudstone and lithified, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by V.G. Glenday
• Repository: Hunterian Museum
Primary reference: J. Weir. 1929. Jurassic Fossils from Jubaland, East Africa, Collected by V. G. Glenday, And the Jurassic Geology of Somaliland. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University 1-63 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 161478: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnites (Belemnopsis) tanganensis Futt 1894 belemnite | |
Bivalvia | |
Mytilus (Modiola) subangustissimus Dacque 1905 mussel | |
Lima (Plagiostoma) notata de Loriol 1878 file clam | |
Ceratomya excentrica Roemer 1836 clam |