Where: Ethiopia (9.4° N, 42.3° E: paleocoordinates 12.6° S, 27.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• 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 93531: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchonella (Septirhynchia) azaisi" = Septirhynchia azaisi
"Rhynchonella (Septirhynchia) azaisi" = Septirhynchia azaisi Cottreau 1924 | |
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"Terebratula suprajurensis" = Xestosina suprajurensis
"Terebratula suprajurensis" = Xestosina suprajurensis Thurmann 1862 | |
Terebratula gortanii Jaboli 1959 | |
Bivalvia | |
Ceratomya cf. excentrica Roemer 1836 clam | |
Mactromya cf. aequalis Agassiz 1843 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
"Calamophyllia flabellum" = Calamophylliopsis flabellum2
"Calamophyllia flabellum" = Calamophylliopsis flabellum2 de Blainville 1830 stony coral var. compacta
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"Latimaeandra sp." = Latomeandra2
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Stromatoporoidea | |
"Stromatopora douvillei" = Stromatoporina douvillei2
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Demospongiae | |
"Milleporidium somaliense" = Steineria somaliensis2
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