Bihendula (USNM): Oxfordian, Somalia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Tetrarhynchiidae
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Somalirhynchia africana
Weir 1925
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Geography
| Country: | Somalia |
| Coordinates: | 10.2° North, 45.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.1° South, 29.6° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Oxfordian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Oxfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gahodleh Shale |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: mainly of limy shale, mudstone and thin limestone and includes some black calcaerous shales and local fibrous gypsum | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: wide continental shelf | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 159959 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Manojlovic | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-08-12 20:26:01 | Last modified: | 2014-08-12 20:26:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-12 20:26:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33914. | X. Shi and R. E. Grant. 1993. Jurassic rhynchonellids: internal structures and taxonomic revisions. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 73:1-190 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |