Eruduwe: Callovian - Oxfordian, Somalia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Lopha solitaria (Sowerby 1824)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Eligmidae
Eligmus polytypus Eudes-Deslongchamps 1856
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima cf. schardti de Loriol 1883
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Muir-Wood 1935
Muir-Wood 1935
Muir-Wood 1935
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Muir-Wood 1935
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Trigonithyrididae
Muir-Wood 1935
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Muir-Wood 1935
Muir-Wood 1935
Muir-Wood 1935
Muir-Wood 1935
Muir-Wood 1935
see common names

Geography
Country:Somalia
Coordinates: 11.1° North, 48.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.8° South, 45.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic - Late Jurassic
Stage: Callovian - Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Callovian - Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 165.3 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bihen Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 2 levels: lower Callovian unit and upper Argovian unit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:93015
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-12-21 07:16:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-12-21 07:16:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31424. L. R. Cox. 1935. Jurassic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 148-197 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

31423 H. M. Muir-Wood. 1935. Jurassic Brachiopoda. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 75-147 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]