Where: Ethiopia (13.6° N, 39.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 marl
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 93206: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 07.01.2010, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) somaliensis Cox 1935 clam | |
Plagiostoma harronis Dacque 1905 file clam | |
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883 |