Daghani, Gawan Limestone (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 30.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gawan Limestone Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• thin-bedded compact 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 93011: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Procerithium hunti n. sp. Cox 1935 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Parallelodon egertonianus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus
"Parallelodon egertonianus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus Stoliczka 1865 clam