Sub-unit 2, Sed. succession, near Isha Baydhabo (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (3.1° N, 43.7° E: paleocoordinates 17.8° S, 27.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Uanei Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone and lithified, muddy limestone

• Subtidal generally under wave base, and it is referable to a mid ramp.

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: M. Chiocchini, M. Fazzuoli, and G. Pavia. 2002. The Uanei Formation (Toarcian) in the Iscia Baidoa area, South Western Somalia. In L. Martire (ed.), Abstracts and Program, 6th Internation Symposium on the Jurassic System, Mondello, September 16 - 19, 2002 33-34 [A. Kocsis/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179135: authorized by Adam Kocsis, entered by Adam Kocsis on 02.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palaeopalaemonidae
Favreina sp. Herbig 1993 decapod
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
Dentalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Foraminifera
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
Spirillina sp. Reuss 1862
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Pseudocyclammina sp.
"Siphovalvulina" sensu Septfontaine 1981
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospirella sp. Plummer 1945
Glomospira "sp. 1" Rzehak 1895
Glomospira "sp. 2" Rzehak 1895