Sagan: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
? Anavirgatites sp.
Idoceras rufanum Dacque 1914
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Anatina cf. parvula Thurmann and Etallon 1862
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Lophrothyris subsella (Leymerie 1846)
recombined as Loboidothyris subsella
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria humeralis (Roemer 1839)
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]