Daghani, bed 226 (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 29.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bihen Limestone Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• brownish-grey 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 92997: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
"Pholadomya (Homomya) inornata" = Homomya inornata
"Pholadomya (Homomya) inornata" = Homomya inornata Sowerby 1837 clam
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Eocallista krenkeli n. sp. Cox 1935 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni n. sp. Muir-Wood 1935
"Burmirhynchia gregoryi" = Kutchirhynchia gregoryi Weir 1929