Cox - 35 (S.E. Tanganyika): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
Nerinella cutleri
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Herzogina weissermeli
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia smeei Sowerby 1840
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:Trigonia smeei 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:36313
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-01-25 07:08:20 Last modified:2004-02-12 14:00:04
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-25 07:08:20
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]