Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 41.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 23.8° 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 36494: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys inaequicostata scallop
Eopecten sp. Douvillé 1897 scallop
Camptonectes auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop | |
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
"Liostrea dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis
"Liostrea dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis Contejean 1859 oyster | |
"Lopha solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
Stegoconcha gmuelleri Krenkel 1910 oyster | |
Grammatodon irritans clam | |
Falcimytilus jurensis mussel | |
Astarte huralensis Stefanini 1939 clam | |
Ceratomya wilderriensis n. sp.
Ceratomya wilderriensis n. sp. clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Bourguetia saemanni snail
Pseudomelania dusseensis n. sp. snail | |
Pietteia dusseensis n. sp.
Pietteia dusseensis n. sp. snail | |
Globularia phasianelloides, "Ampullospira dejanira" = Ampullina (Ampullospira)
"Ampullospira dejanira" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail |