Golgie: Callovian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Rhynchonella morierei Davidson 1852
recombined as Kutchirhynchia morieri
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella edwardsi Chapuis and Dewalque 1853
    = "Rhynchonella" edwardsi Chapuis and Dewalque 1853
Kiessling et al. 2011
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiola aspera
corrected as Modiolus
Modiola cf. imbricata Sowerby 1818
recombined as Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra imbricata
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceromya paucilirata
replaced by Ceratomya
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia pullus Sowerby 1826
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 38.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.1° South, 28.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:94591
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel, W. Kiessling
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-03-03 05:42:33 Last modified:2010-03-03 07:42:33
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-03-03 05:42:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32204. H. Douville. 1886. Examen des fossiles rapportes du Choa par M. Aubry [Examination of the fossils brought from Choa by M. Aubry]. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 14:223-241 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

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]