Where: Tanzania (6.8° S, 38.2° E: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 17.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Station Beds Member, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: mechanical
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1965. Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Supplement I [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36402: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 29.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Ataphrus aff. acmon Orbigny 1853 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle | |
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam | |
"? Eotrapezium sp." = Isocyprina (Eotrapezium)
"? Eotrapezium sp." = Isocyprina (Eotrapezium) Douvillé 1912 clam | |
Ceratomya sp. Sandberger 1864 clam | |
? Mactromya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam |