Where: Ethiopia (13.6° N, 39.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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, argillaceous limestone
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 93858: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2010, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Actinastrea crassoramosa Michelin 1843 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Stegoconcha gmuelleri Krenkel 1910 oyster | |
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
Musculus (Musculus) somaliensis Cox 1935 mussel | |
Integricardium (Integricardium) cf. bannesianum Contejean 1859 cockle | |
Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana Holdhaus 1913 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
cf. Amydroptychus sp., Somalirhynchia sp., Somalirhynchia africana, Daghanirhynchia sp., Cymatorhynchia sp.
cf. Amydroptychus sp. Cooper 1989
Somalirhynchia sp. Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925
Daghanirhynchia sp. Muir-Wood 1935
Cymatorhynchia sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Monsardithyris sp. Alméras 1970 | |
Cererithyris sp. Buckman 1917 |