Where: Kenya (3.4° N, 40.8° E: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 23.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Golberobe Beds Member, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• 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 36484: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854 clam | |
Falcimytilus tifoensis n. sp.
Falcimytilus tifoensis n. sp. mussel | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Gervillia saggersoni oyster | |
Lopha tifoensis oyster | |
"Liostrea dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis, "Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Liostrea dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis Contejean 1859 oyster
"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Meleagrinella radiata scallop |