Cox - 181 (N.E. Kenya): Kimmeridgian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia
Trochalia depressa
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya excentrica (Roemer 1836)
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 4.0° North, 41.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.3° South, 24.3° 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 / Dakacha Limestones
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Kimmeridgian, Hereri Shales overlain by Dakacha Limestones
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:36509
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-02-01 11:01:50 Last modified:2004-02-01 13:01:50
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-01 11:01:50
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]