Where: Ethiopia (9.7° N, 42.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 26.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 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 93503: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Zeilleria hararina n. sp.
Zeilleria hararina n. sp. Jaboli 1959 | |
Terebratula gortanii Jaboli 1959 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula cuneiformis" = Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis
"Nucula cuneiformis" = Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam | |
"Mytilus (Arcomytilus) laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis, "Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Mytilus (Arcomytilus) laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis de Loriol 1883 mussel
"Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
"Lima (Plagiostoma) bianchii" = Plagiostoma harronis
"Lima (Plagiostoma) bianchii" = Plagiostoma harronis Dacque 1905 file clam | |
Camptonectes lens Sowerby 1818 scallop | |
Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus Stoliczka 1865 clam | |
Astarte sp., "Astarte scytalis" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
"Astarte scytalis" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana Holdhaus 1913 clam | |
Pholadomya stefaninii Jaboli 1959 clam | |
Thracia incerta Thurmann 1836 clam |