Dabeir (Daua Limestone): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Kenya
collected by V.G. Glenday
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Postepithyrididae
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Lophrothyris aff. subsella
(Leymerie 1846)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Loboidothyris subsella | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra nana
(Sowerby 1822)
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7 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys sp.
Röding 1798
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| 1 valve (right?) | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima (Limatula) elliptica
(Whiteaves 1861)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte minima
d'Ossat 1900
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| fragmentary cast | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 3.5° North, 40.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 17.5° South, 22.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Daua Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper Kimmeridgian or Tithonian based on ammonites "not older than Corallian and probably Kimmeridgian" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,red,yellow lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: compact, shelly limestone. tough reddish-yellow | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast |
| 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
| Database number: | 161485 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Manojlovic |
| Modifier: | M. Manojlovic | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-09-06 18:58:49 | Last modified: | 2014-09-13 17:33:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-09-06 18:58:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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] |