Cox - 8 (Tendaguru): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Nerinellidae
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Nerinella cutleri n. sp.
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Bakevelliidae
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Gervillella aviculoides
(Sowerby 1814)
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Stegoconcha gmuelleri
(Krenkel 1910)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Parallelodontidae
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Grammatodon irritans
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Hippopodiidae
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Hippopodium quenstedti
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Herzogina recki
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Astarte sowerbyana
Holdhaus 1913
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recombined as Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Trigoniidae
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Trigonia migeodi n. sp.
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Trigonia smeei
Sowerby 1840
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recombined as Trigonia (Indotrigonia) smeei | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tanzania |
Coordinates: | 9.7° South, 39.3° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 29.4° South, 16.7° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
Member: | Nerinea Bed |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone | ||
Environment: | marginal marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,original calcite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | mechanical |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 36286 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-01-25 03:05:35 | Last modified: | 2004-02-12 12:19:13 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-25 03:05:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9748. | L. R. Cox. 1965. Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Supplement I [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen] |