Sample GY 2 (Jurassic of Ethiopia)

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 wackestone and lithified packstone

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 94788: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 16.03.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster