Gilgele section: Late Tithonian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 10.1° North, 38.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.5° South, 35.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Late Tithonian Ammonoid zone:  Micracanthoceras microcanthum
Age range of interval: 145.06 - 143.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Antalo Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Chitinoidellid calpionellid zone, Bonetinae subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:228747
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2023-01-01 18:02:14 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2023-01-01 18:02:14
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

83549. S. Jain and G. Schweigert. 2022. On the dimorphic occurrence of the upper Tithonian ammonite genus Djurjuriceras Roman from the Blue Nile Basin (Ethiopia). PalZ 96:655-668 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]