Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 29.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Gahodleh Shale Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• "Argovian", base of Gahodleh Shale
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale
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 93000: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Proconulus arabiensis Newton 1908 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Parallelodon egertonianus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus
"Parallelodon egertonianus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus Stoliczka 1865 clam | |
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
"Astarte scytalis" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana
"Astarte scytalis" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana Holdhaus 1913 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Somalirhynchia bihendulensis Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925 | |
""Terebratula" aualites" = Loboidothyris aualites, Ptyctothyris daghaniensis n. sp.
""Terebratula" aualites" = Loboidothyris aualites Stefanini 1925
Ptyctothyris daghaniensis n. sp. Muir-Wood 1935 |