Where: Kenya (4.0° S, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° S, 19.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Changamwe Shale Formation, Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: J. Weir. 1930. Mesozoic Brachiopoda and Mollusca from Mombasa. In M. M. Wood (ed.), Reports on geological collections from the coastlands of Kenya Colony. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum Glasgow University 4:73-102 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99841: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, Liostrea multiformis
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
Liostrea multiformis Koch and Dunker 1837 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hibolites cf. katrolensis belemnite
Belemnopsis tanganensis Futt 1894 belemnite |