Bihendula (Bihin Limestone, top) Stefanini (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.2° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.1° S, 29.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bihin Limestone Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• possibly partially Kimmeridgian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

• compact, grey limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stefanini

• 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 161479: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea arabica Stefanini 1925 oyster