Cox - 55 (S.E. Tanganyika): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
? Radulopecten kinjeleensis
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella kiwawaensis n. sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania
Coordinates: 9.2° South, 39.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.0° South, 17.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Environment: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:36335
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-01-26 04:45:39 Last modified:2004-01-26 12:19:24
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-26 04:45:39
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]