Where: Ethiopia (13.6° N, 39.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 26.6° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: AL2 Member (Antalo Formation), Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite, replaced with silica

Collected in 2007; reposited in the MfN

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: W. Kiessling, D. K. Pandey, M. Schemm-Gregory, H. Mewis, and M. Aberhan. 2011. Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities. Journal of African Earth Sciences 59:195-214 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93031: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 22.12.2009, edited by Uta Merkel

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