Cox - 121 (N.E. Tanganyika): Kimmeridgian, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Bakevelliidae
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Gervillella aviculoides
(Sowerby 1814)
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Mactromyidae
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Mactromya quadrata
Rollier 1913
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Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya protei
(Brongniart 1821)
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recombined as Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Myophorellidae
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Myophorella quennelli n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Ampullinidae
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Ampullospira quennelli n. sp.
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spelled with current rank as Ampullina (Ampullospira) | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tanzania |
Coordinates: | 5.0° South, 39.1° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 24.8° South, 18.4° 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: | Kimmeridgian | ||
Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 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: | 36436 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-01-29 04:34:06 | Last modified: | 2004-01-29 06:34:06 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-04-29 04:34:06 |
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] |