Cox - 159 (N.E. Kenya) (Jurassic of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (3.4° N, 41.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 23.2° 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 36487: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha sp. Röding 1798 oyster