Where: Somalia (11.0° N, 48.4° E: paleocoordinates 12.1° S, 33.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bihen Limestone Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)
• 2 levels: lower Callovian unit and upper Argovian unit
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. M. Muir-Wood. 1935. Jurassic Brachiopoda. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 75-147 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93021: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Sphaeroidothyris browni Muir-Wood 1935
"Terebratula cf. zieteni" = Colosia zieteni de Loriol 1878
Loboidothyris aethiopica Weir 1929 | |
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Septaliphoria cf. pinguis Roemer 1836 | |
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Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925
Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni Muir-Wood 1935 | |