Galitcha (Jurassic to of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 41.3° 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, shelly/skeletal limestone

• hard, compact, shelly 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 161486: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
valve (right?)
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster