Daghani, bed 222 (Jurassic to of Somalia)

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

• brownish-grey 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

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
"Milleporidium somaliense" = Steineria somaliensis
"Milleporidium somaliense" = Steineria somaliensis Zuffardi-Comerci 1931 demosponge
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia somaliensis Cox 1935 cockle