Tallaè: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
Epismilia sp. Fromentel 1861
    = Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900
Baron-Szabo 2009
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia catenula n. sp. Zuffardi-Comerci 1959
    = "Heliocoenia" catenula Zuffardi-Comerci 1959
Kiessling et al. 2011
Wells (1973)
Heliocoenia corallina Koby 1881
Cryptocoenia thiessingi Koby 1881
recombined as Stylina thiessingi
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Epismilia delemontana Koby 1880
    = Epistreptophyllum cf. cornutiformis Gregory 1900
Baron-Szabo 2009
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Heliocoenia humberti Etallon 1858
    = Lochmaeosmilia trapeziformis Gregory 1900
Baron-Szabo 2009
Demospongiae - Burgundiidae
Burgundia circoporoides n. sp. Zuffardi-Comerci 1959
Stromatoporoidea
Stromatopora douvillei Dehorne 1918
recombined as Stromatoporina douvillei
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora chauffati Dehorne 1920
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 8.7° North, 42.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.9° South, 26.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "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:93539
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel, W. Kiessling
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-01-22 04:42:01 Last modified:2010-01-22 06:42:01
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-22 04:42:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31657. R. Zuffardi-Comerci. 1959. Corallari e Idrozoi giurassici degli altipiani Hararini [Jurassic corals and Hydrozoa from the Harar Plateau]. Missione Geologica dell'Azienda Italiana Petroli (AGIP) nella Dancalia Meridionale e sugli Altipiani Hararini 4(1):199-250 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

30659 R. Baron-Szabo. 2009. Taxonomic opinions on Cretaceous corals. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]
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]