Daghani, bed 211 (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.7° S, 30.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wanderer Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified 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 93005: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia cf. reticulata
Trigonia cf. reticulata Agassiz 1841 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte altissima n. sp., "Astarte scytalis" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana
Astarte altissima n. sp. Cox 1935 clam
"Astarte scytalis" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana Holdhaus 1913 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Parallelodon egertonianus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus
"Parallelodon egertonianus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus Stoliczka 1865 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea balli
Gryphaea balli Stefanini 1925 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp.
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria latifrons
Zeilleria latifrons Krumbeck 1905
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Bihendulirhynchia afra n. gen. n. sp.
Bihendulirhynchia afra n. gen. n. sp. Muir-Wood 1935