Daghani, bed 226: Callovian, Somalia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais cf. haudnervatus
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Homomya) inornata Sowerby 1837
recombined as Homomya inornata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Eocallista krenkeli n. sp. Cox 1935
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus (Sowerby 1818)
recombined as Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni n. sp. Muir-Wood 1935
Muir-Wood 1935
Rhactorhynchia paolii
Muir-Wood 1935
Burmirhynchia gregoryi Weir 1929
Muir-Wood 1935
recombined as Kutchirhynchia gregoryi
see common names

Geography
Country:Somalia
Coordinates: 10.3° North, 45.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.9° South, 29.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Formation:Bihen Limestone
Local section:Daghani Local bed:226
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: brownish-grey limestone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:92997
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-12-21 01:44:47 Last modified:2009-12-21 03:44:47
Access level:the public Released:2009-12-21 01:44:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31424. L. R. Cox. 1935. Jurassic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 148-197 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

31423 H. M. Muir-Wood. 1935. Jurassic Brachiopoda. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 75-147 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]