Where: Tanzania (6.1° S, 38.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 17.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 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 36423: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 29.01.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Meleagrinella radiata scallop | |
"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, "Liostrea dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis
"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
"Liostrea dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis Contejean 1859 oyster | |
Fimbria sp. Mühlfeldt 1811 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam |