Rukesa (Lowest Sandy Fossiliferous Limestone): Late Oxfordian, Kenya
collected by V.G. Glenday

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Arctostrea rastellaris (Munster 1833)
1 specimen
valve of an immature shell
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 3.9° North, 41.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.7° South, 35.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Late Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 157.9 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Daua Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Corallian"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red lithified sandy "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:V.G. Glenday
Collection method comments: Repository: Hunterian Museum
Metadata
Database number:161802
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-09-13 12:37:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-13 12:37:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
52567. J. Weir. 1929. Jurassic Fossils from Jubaland, East Africa, Collected by V. G. Glenday, And the Jurassic Geology of Somaliland. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University 1-63 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]