Tendaguru 8a - Maimbwi Creek: Early/Lower Tithonian, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Trigoniidae
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Trigonia (Indotrigonia) smeei
(Sowerby 1840)
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Aberhan 2003 | common category | |||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Herzogina weissermeli
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Aberhan 2003 | abundant category | |||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Falcimytilus dietrichi
Cox 1965
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Aberhan 2003 | rare category | |||||
Lithophaga suboblonga
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Aberhan 2003 | rare category | |||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Aequipecten aff. subarmatus
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rare category | ||||||
Radulopecten scarburgensis
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Aberhan 2003 | rare category | |||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Plagiostoma sp.
Sowerby 1814
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Aberhan 2003 | few category | |||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Liostrea dubiensis
(Contejean 1859)
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Aberhan 2003 | rare category | |||||
recombined as Praeexogyra dubiensis | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tanzania |
Coordinates: | 9.7° South, 39.3° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 30.0° South, 17.1° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Tithonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 149.20000 - 146.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Member: | Trigonia Smeei Bed |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | coarse lithified conglomeratic,calcareous sandstone | ||
Lithology description: coarse grained, conglomeratic, oolithic, sandstone | |||
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,original calcite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | mechanical,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Janensch's expedition (1909-1913) |
Metadata
Database number: | 35571 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2003-12-22 05:50:26 | Last modified: | 2008-02-22 08:52:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-12-22 05:50:26 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
26538. | W. O. Dietrich. 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII/2, Teil 2 1-86 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] |
Secondary references:
9607 | M. Aberhan. 2003. Tendaguru Expedition 1909-1913. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] |