Cox - 129 (N.E. Kenya): Bathonian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys curvivarians (Dietrich 1933)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma biiniensis n. sp.
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes asper Sowerby 1818
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 4.1° North, 41.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.3° South, 23.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Bathonian
Age range of interval:168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Murri Limestones
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
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:36457
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-02-01 07:01:31 Last modified:2004-02-01 09:01:31
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-01 07:01:31
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]