Where: Morogoro, Tanzania (8.0° S, 36.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° S, 42.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Beaufort Group, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
• Karoo Supergroup "Ruhembe Beds"; Cistecephalus zone, upper zone of Lower Beaufort, corresponding to late Capitanian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; brown, gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1936. Karroo Lamellibranchia from Tanganyika Territory and Madagascar. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 92(365):32-56 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41492: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Liebea cf. squamosa Sowerby 1829 clam | |
Pteria africana n. sp.
Pteria africana n. sp. pearl oyster |