Where: Kenya (3.5° N, 40.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 25.1° S, 34.7° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daua Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• Upper Kimmeridgian or Tithonian based on ammonites "not older than Corallian and probably Kimmeridgian"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, red, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
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 161485: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Lophrothyris aff. subsella" = Xestosina subsella
"Lophrothyris aff. subsella" = Xestosina subsella Leymerie 1846 | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Lima (Limatula) elliptica Whiteaves 1861 file clam | |
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