Where: Kenya (3.8° N, 41.2° E: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 23.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Seir Limestones Member, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 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 36493: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
"Ampullospira dejanira" = Ampullina (Ampullospira)
"Ampullospira dejanira" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail | |
Pseudomelania wilderriensis n. sp. snail
Bourguetia saemanni snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anisocardia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
Eopecten velatus Goldfuss 1833 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop | |
"Lopha gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum, "Lopha solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
"Lopha solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |