Sample 88 (Jurassic of Ethiopia)

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• coral-stromatoporoid garden, not reef building

Size class: macrofossils

• Focus on corals, stromatorporoids common but not identified

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 94312: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 16.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea crassoramosa Michelin 1843 stony coral
one collected, 8 counted
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea bernensis Etallon 1864 stony coral
counted, not collected
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
"Ironella arabica" = Starostinia arabica
"Ironella arabica" = Starostinia arabica El-Asa'ad 1991 stony coral
one collected, 10 counted
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Latiastrea greppini Koby 1885 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Lochmaeosmilia trapeziformis Gregory 1900 stony coral
counted, not collected