Dakatch (limestones): Oxfordian, Somalia
collected by V.G. Glenday

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnites (Belemnopsis) tanganensis (Futt 1894)
1 fragment
fragmentary guard
see common names

Geography
Country:Somalia
Coordinates: 1.8° North, 42.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.6° South, 36.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 161.5 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Oxfordian-Corallian based on belemnites and C. helvetica.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Either the sandy, very fossiliferous limestone or the bluish rubbly, very fossiliferous limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
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
Collectors:V.G. Glenday
Collection method comments: Repository: Hunterian Museum
Metadata
Also known as:Dikatch
Database number:161476
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-09-06 16:38:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-06 16:38:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
52567. J. Weir. 1929. Jurassic Fossils from Jubaland, East Africa, Collected by V. G. Glenday, And the Jurassic Geology of Somaliland. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University 1-63 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]