Bihendula (Bihin Limestone mudstone series) (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.2° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 29.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bihin Limestone Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• Callovian or Bathonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous mudstone and lithified, calcareous shale

• calcareous mudstone and shale with shell-banks

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 161482: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus (Modiola) blanfordi n. sp. Weir 1929 mussel
 Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
"Ceromyopsis somaliensis n. sp." = Ceratomyopsis somaliensis
"Ceromyopsis somaliensis n. sp." = Ceratomyopsis somaliensis Weir 1929 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925
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