Graua Limestone: Bed 3 (Cretaceous of Ethiopia)

Where: Ethiopia (9.1° N, 41.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° S, 28.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Graua Limestone Member (Amba Aradam Formation), Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, yellow marl and calcareous wackestone

• 4 m, yellowish marl with thin and wavy bedded marly wackestone intercalations

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Bosellini, A. Russo, and R. Schroeder. 1999. Stratigraphic evidence for an Early Aptian sea-level fluctuation: the Graua Limestone of south-eastern Ethiopia. Cretaceous Research 20:783-791 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46586: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 20.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
"Pleurotomaria (Leptomaria) amadeisabaudiae" = Leptomaria
"Pleurotomaria (Leptomaria) amadeisabaudiae" = Leptomaria snail