Rukesa (Middle Muddy Limestone and Main Sandy) (Jurassic to of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 41.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 23.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daua Limestone Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 157.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, muddy limestone and lithified, sandy limestone

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 161484: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
"Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei
"Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei Brongniart 1821 clam
young individual
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya sp. Sandberger 1864 clam
Ceratomya sp. juv
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Plagiostoma) harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis
"Lima (Plagiostoma) harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis Dacque 1905 file clam
right valve
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Camptonectes) lens" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus
"Chlamys (Camptonectes) lens" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium solidum Roemer 1836 scallop
flat valve
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster