Derkale (top member): Kimmeridgian, Kenya
collected by V.G. Glenday

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Plagiostoma) cf. astartina (Thurmann 1859)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 3.8° North, 40.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.2° South, 34.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval: 154.8 - 149.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Daua Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: band of compact slaty-gray limestone, greenish in places, and containing numerous cavities filled with calcite crystals
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
Also known as:Terkali
Database number:161814
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-09-13 14:38:22 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-13 14:38:22
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]