Where: Ethiopia (13.6° N, 39.5° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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, argillaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite
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 94322: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 16.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Columnocoenia gemmans de Fromentel 1861 stony coral |