Where: Ethiopia (9.5° N, 42.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° S, 26.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• "Oolite medio"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep 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 93499: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2010, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus, Mytilus jurensis
"Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel
Mytilus jurensis Merian 1836 mussel | |
Eopecten velatus Goldfuss 1833 scallop | |
Mactromya quadrata Rollier 1913 clam | |
Lucina "sp. 1" Bruguière 1797 clam | |
"Pholadomya (Homomya) laitmairensis" = Homomya, "Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei
"Pholadomya (Homomya) laitmairensis" = Homomya clam
"Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei Brongniart 1821 clam | |
Cercomya bottegoi n. sp.
Cercomya bottegoi n. sp. Jaboli 1959 clam | |
Thracia incerta Thurmann 1836 clam | |
Ceratomya cf. excentrica Roemer 1836 clam | |
"Cyprina sp." = Arctica
"Cyprina sp." = Arctica Schumacher 1817 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Terebratula suprajurensis" = Xestosina suprajurensis
"Terebratula suprajurensis" = Xestosina suprajurensis Thurmann 1862 |