Qoton (Mergalleh Limestone) (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.4° N, 43.2° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° S, 28.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mergalleh Limestone Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• thin bedded, compact 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 161810: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 13.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Velata inaequistriata Futterer 1897 scallop
fragment of a cast
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Plagiostoma) cf. astartina Thurmann 1859 file clam
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria egena Bayle 1878
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Lophrothyris ? suprajurensis" = Xestosina suprajurensis
"Lophrothyris ? suprajurensis" = Xestosina suprajurensis Thurmann 1862