Where: Eritrea (14.5° N, 40.7° E: paleocoordinates 9.9° S, 28.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Antalo Limestone Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)
• 30 m thick unit in the upper part of the 200 m thick Antalo Limestone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Jordan. 1971. Megafossilien des Jura aus dem Antalo-Kalk von Nord-Äthiopien [Jurassic megafossils from the Antalo Limestone of northern Ethiopia]. Beihefte zum Geologischen Jahrbuch 116:141-171 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92925: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.12.2009
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus (Arcomytilus) laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis
"Mytilus (Arcomytilus) laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis de Loriol 1883 mussel | |
"Lopha solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Serpula (Dorsoserpula) cf. conformis Goldfuss 1829 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Kutchithyris sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Somalirhynchia sp., Somalirhynchia bihendulensis, Somalirhynchia aff. bihendulensis, Somalirhynchia africana, Somalirhynchia aff. bihenensis, Somalirhynchia smelliei
Somalirhynchia sp. Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia bihendulensis Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia aff. bihendulensis Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia aff. bihenensis Muir-Wood 1935
Somalirhynchia smelliei Weir 1925 | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Anthozoa | |
? Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
? Milleporidium sp. Steinmann 1903 stromatoporoid sponge |