Cox - 145 (N.E. Kenya): Callovian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Lopha costata
(Sowerby 1825)
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Eligmidae
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Eligmus rollandi
Douvillé 1907
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Palaeolophidae
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Lopha gregarea
(Sowerby 1816)
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recombined as Actinostreon gregareum | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Eopecten aubryi
(Douville 1886)
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synonym of Eopecten velatus | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Plagiostoma sp.
Sowerby 1814
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Kenya |
Coordinates: | 4.0° North, 41.2° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 16.5° South, 23.9° 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: | 36473 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-02-01 07:30:04 | Last modified: | 2004-02-01 09:30:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-01 07:30:04 |
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] |