Where: Somalia (10.2° N, 45.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 30.0° 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 93013: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
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Demospongiae | |
"Milleporidium somaliense" = Steineria somaliensis2
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Stromatoporoidea | |
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Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya aubryi Douville 1886 clam | |
"Mytilus (Musculus) somaliensis" = Musculus somaliensis
"Mytilus (Musculus) somaliensis" = Musculus somaliensis Cox 1935 mussel | |
Eligmus weiri Cox 1935 oyster
Eligmus rollandi Douvillé 1907 oyster
Eligmus aualites Stefanini 1925 oyster | |
"Lima (Plagiostoma) harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis
"Lima (Plagiostoma) harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis Dacque 1905 file clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Somalirhynchia africana1 Weir 1925
Burmirhynchia jirbaensis n. sp.1 Muir-Wood 1935 |