Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 29.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bihen Limestone Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)
• "Divesian/Argovian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1935. Jurassic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 148-197 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92991: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Nerinea somaliensis Weir 1925 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
"Lopha cf. gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha cf. gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
"Ostrea (Liostrea) dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis
"Ostrea (Liostrea) dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis Contejean 1859 oyster | |
"Ceromyopsis somaliensis" = Ceratomyopsis somaliensis
"Ceromyopsis somaliensis" = Ceratomyopsis somaliensis Weir 1929 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Terebratula cf. subsella" = Xestosina subsella
"Terebratula cf. subsella" = Xestosina subsella Leymerie 1846 | |
Somalirhynchia bihenensis Muir-Wood 1935
Somalirhynchia somalica Dacque 1905 |