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 93008: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Posidonia somaliensis Cox 1935 oyster |