Cox - 154 (N.E. Kenya): Oxfordian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea dubiensis (Contejean 1859)
recombined as Praeexogyra dubiensis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha sp. Röding 1798
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Lopha solitaria (Sowerby 1824)
synonym of Actinostreon gregareum
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 3.4° North, 40.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.9° South, 22.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Golberobe Beds
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:36482
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-02-01 07:47:33 Last modified:2004-02-01 10:00:47
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-01 07:47:33
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]