Where: Somalia (10.1° N, 45.3° E: paleocoordinates 12.1° S, 29.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bihen Limestone Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; 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 93012: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
|
| |
| Demospongiae | |
"Milleporidium somaliense" = Steineria somaliensis2
| |
| Stromatoporoidea | |
|
| |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Charltonithyris bihinensis" = Arabatia bihinensis1
"Charltonithyris bihinensis" = Arabatia bihinensis1 Weir 1929 | |
Daghanirhynchia farquharsoni n. sp.1, Daghanirhynchia subversabilis1, Daghanirhynchia kabeitensis n. sp.1, Daghanirhynchia daghaniensis1, Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni1, Burmirhynchia cavagnarii1
Daghanirhynchia farquharsoni n. sp.1 Muir-Wood 1935
Daghanirhynchia subversabilis1 Weir 1925
Daghanirhynchia kabeitensis n. sp.1 Muir-Wood 1935
Daghanirhynchia daghaniensis1 Muir-Wood 1935
Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni1 Muir-Wood 1935
Burmirhynchia cavagnarii1 Diaz-Romero 1931 | |
| Bivalvia | |
|
Eligmus weiri Cox 1935 oyster | |
|
Gryphaea costellata Douvillé 1916 oyster | |
"Lopha cf. gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha cf. gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |