Bihendula (Meragalleh Limestone, compact limestone): Kimmeridgian, Somalia
collected by V.G. Glenday
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Postepithyrididae
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1 specimen |
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| dorsal vavle |
| see common names |
| Country: | Somalia |
| Coordinates: |
10.2° North, 45.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.2° South, 41.4° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
| 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 |
| Formation: | Meragalleh Limestone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
| Stratigraphy comments: based on unspecified Kimmeridgian ammonites |
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: compact limestone |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | V.G. Glenday |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Hunterian Museum |
| Database number: | 161824 |
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham |
Enterer: | M. Manojlovic |
| Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-09-13 17:22:55 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2014-09-13 17:22:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 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] |