Where: Tanzania (9.6° S, 39.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 17.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Trigonia Smeei Bed Member, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Janensch's expedition (1909-1913)
Primary reference: W. O. Dietrich. 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII/2, Teil 2 1-86 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79260: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 29.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cossmannea hennigi snail
Nerinea cf. tuberculosa snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Gervilleia (Gervillella) sp." = Gervillia
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Eopecten velatus Goldfuss 1833 scallop | |
Seebachia janenschi clam | |