Daghani, bed 207 (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.5° S, 29.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Daghani Shale Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• Middle Kimmeridgian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; 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 93007: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia somaliensis n. sp. Cox 1935 oyster