Where: Somalia (4.4° N, 43.9° E: paleocoordinates 17.3° S, 26.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)
• "Oolitico medio"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: G. Stefanini. 1939. Molluschi del Giuralias della Somalia, Gasteropodi e Lamellibranchi [Jurassic molluscs from Somalia, gastropods and bivalves]. Palaeontographia Italica 32(4):103-270 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94528: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Trigonia aff. spissicostata" = Laevitrigonia spissicostata
"Trigonia aff. spissicostata" = Laevitrigonia spissicostata Kitchin 1903 clam | |
? Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
"Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei, Goniomya berlieri
"Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei Brongniart 1821 clam
Goniomya berlieri clam | |
Ceratomya excentrica Roemer 1836 clam | |
Isocyprina simplex clam | |
"Lima (Plagiostoma) harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis
"Lima (Plagiostoma) harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis Dacque 1905 file clam | |
Chlamys cf. laurae scallop |