Cox - 145 (N.E. Kenya) (Jurassic of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (4.0° N, 41.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 23.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Muddo Erri Limestones Member, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• Callovian [?-Lower Oxfordian]

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

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 36473: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Eligmidae
Eligmus rollandi Douvillé 1907 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha costata Sowerby 1825 oyster
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Lopha gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Eopecten aubryi" = Eopecten velatus
"Eopecten aubryi" = Eopecten velatus Goldfuss 1833 scallop