Sagan: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
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Scleractinia indet.
Bourne 1900
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Perisphinctidae
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? Anavirgatites sp.
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Idoceras rufanum
Dacque 1914
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra nana
(Sowerby 1822)
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recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Anatinellidae
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Anatina cf. parvula
Thurmann and Etallon 1862
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Tetrarhynchiidae
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Somalirhynchia africana
Weir 1925
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Postepithyrididae
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Lophrothyris subsella
(Leymerie 1846)
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recombined as Loboidothyris subsella | |||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Zeilleriidae
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Zeilleria humeralis
(Roemer 1839)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Ethiopia |
Coordinates: | 13.8° North, 41.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 7.5° South, 27.0° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian | ||
Age range of interval: | 163.50000 - 152.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 94574 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2010-03-01 03:57:50 | Last modified: | 2010-03-01 05:57:50 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2012-03-01 03:57:50 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
32178. | V. Diaz-Romero. 1931. Contributo allo studio della fauna Giurese della Dancalia centrale [The Jurassic fauna of the central Danakil]. Palaeontographia Italica 31:1-61 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |