Where: Ethiopia (13.6° N, 39.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 marl
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 93860: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2010, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925
Cymatorhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Daghanirhynchia daghaniensis Muir-Wood 1935 | |
Cererithyris sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Monsardithyris sp. Alméras 1970 | |
Bivalvia | |
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana Holdhaus 1913 clam |