Cox - 169 (N.E. Kenya): Kimmeridgian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Falcimytilus jurensis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
    = Nanogyra fourtaui Stefanini 1925
Kiessling et al. 2011
synonym of Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys curvivarians (Dietrich 1933)
Eopecten thurmanni
    = Eopecten velatus Goldfuss 1833
Kiessling et al. 2011
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon irritans
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Integricardium bannesianum (Contejean 1859)
Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Ceratomyopsis striata (d'Orbigny 1822)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya excentrica (Roemer 1836)
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Procerithiidae indet. Cossmann 1905
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Harpagodes sp. Gill 1870
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Bourguetia saemanni
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 3.9° North, 41.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.3° South, 24.2° 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:157.30000 - 152.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Hereri Shales
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
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:36497
Authorizer:M. Aberhan, W. Kiessling Enterer:S. Nurnberg, W. Kiessling
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-02-01 10:41:46 Last modified:2004-02-01 12:41:47
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-01 10:41:46
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]

Secondary references:

31428 W. Kiessling, D. K. Pandey, M. Schemm-Gregory, H. Mewis, and M. Aberhan. 2011. Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities. Journal of African Earth Sciences 59:195-214 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]