Where: Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 16.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Trigonia Smeei Bed & Nerinea Bed Member, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• Mostly Trigonia Smmeei Bed?
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Janensch's expedition (1909-1913)
Primary reference: W. O. Dietrich. 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII/2, Teil 2 1-86 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35570: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Eopecten velatus Goldfuss 1833 scallop | |
Limatula migeodi file clam | |
Meleagrinella radiata scallop | |
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster | |
"? Alectryonia sp." = Ostrea (Alectryonia)
"? Alectryonia sp." = Ostrea (Alectryonia) Fischer de Waldheim 1807 oyster | |
Stegoconcha gmuelleri Krenkel 1910 oyster | |
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster | |
Lithophaga suboblonga mussel
Falcimytilus dietrichi Cox 1965 mussel | |
Astarte cf. cotteausia, Astarte sp., Astarte weissermeli, Seebachia janenschi, Herzogina recki, Herzogina subobovata, Herzogina weissermeli, "Astarte (Coelastarte) cf. cotteausia" = Neocrassina (Coelastarte)
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Astarte weissermeli clam
Seebachia janenschi clam
Herzogina recki clam
Herzogina subobovata clam
"Astarte (Coelastarte) cf. cotteausia" = Neocrassina (Coelastarte) clam | |
Sphaera subcorrugata n. sp.
Sphaera subcorrugata n. sp. clam | |
Arcomya robustissima clam
Arcomya (? Pachymya) robustissima n. sp. clam | |
Protocardia schencki cockle | |
Trigonia (Indotrigonia) smeei Sowerby 1840 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Nautilus dorsatus" = Paracenoceras dorsatus
| |
Lissoceras elimatum ammonite | |
Subdichotomoceras cf. sparsiplicatum ammonite | |
Holcophylloceras mesolcum ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Patella sp. Linnaeus 1758 limpet | |
Cossmannea hennigi snail | |
Nerinella cutleri snail |