Cox - 144 (N.E. Kenya): Callovian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
"Pleurotomaria" sp. Defrance 1826
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae gen. indet.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea alimena
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
Chlamys curvivarians (Dietrich 1933)
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 4.0° North, 41.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.5° South, 23.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Muddo Erri Limestones
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Callovian [?-Lower Oxfordian]
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:36472
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-02-01 07:29:04 Last modified:2004-02-01 09:29:04
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-01 07:29:04
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]