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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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: AL1 Member (Antalo Formation), Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone
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 93868: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2010, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Arcomytilus laitmairensis de Loriol 1883 mussel
Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
Spondylopecten (Spondylopecten) palinurus d'Orbigny 1850 scallop | |
Plagiostoma harronis Dacque 1905 file clam | |
? Gryphaea (Bilobissa) balli Stefanini 1925 oyster | |
Integricardium (Integricardium) cf. bannesianum Contejean 1859 cockle | |
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) somaliensis Cox 1935 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Lochmaeosmilia trapeziformis Gregory 1900 stony coral |