Where: Ethiopia (9.3° N, 42.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 27.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• "Oolite inferiore"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Jaboli. 1959. Fossili Giurassici dell'Harar (Africa Orientale): Brachiopodi, Lamellibranchi e Gasteropodi [Jurassic fossils from Harar (Eastern Africa): brachiopods, lamellibranchs and gastropods]. Missione Geologica dell'Azienda Italiana Petroli (AGIP) nella Dancalia Meridionale e sugli Altipiani Hararini 4(1):3-100 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93490: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonella (Daghanirhynchia) sp. Fischer 1809 | |
"Terebratula ferrandii" = Kutchithyris ferrandii
"Terebratula ferrandii" = Kutchithyris ferrandii Stefanini 1932 | |
Terebratula bisuffarcinata Noetling 1887 | |
Gastropoda | |
Purpuroidea cf. glabra periwinkle | |
Nerinea somaliensis Weir 1925 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus (Musculus) somaliensis" = Musculus somaliensis
"Mytilus (Musculus) somaliensis" = Musculus somaliensis Cox 1935 mussel | |
Anthozoa | |
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"Isastrea minima" = Latiastrea minima2
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"Thamnasteria lomontiana" = Kobyastraea lomontiana2
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Demospongiae | |
"Milleporidium somaliense" = Steineria somaliensis2
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