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"
• 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 93001: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys cf. splendens Dollfus 1863 scallop
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop |