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: H. D. Thomas. 1935. Jurassic corals and Hydrozoa, together with a re-description of Astraea caryophylloides Goldfuss. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 23-39 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92994: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
"Milleporidium somaliense" = Steineria somaliensis
"Milleporidium somaliense" = Steineria somaliensis Zuffardi-Comerci 1931 demosponge | |
Bivalvia | |
Protocardia somaliensis Cox 1935 cockle |