Kiturika Mountains, Naiwanga, Ndalakasha (Cretaceous of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (9.0° S, 39.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° S, 21.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kiturika Member, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 112.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate

• carbonate ramp

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Löser. 2008. Early Cretaceous (Late Valanginian-Aptian) coral faunas from east Africa (Tanzania, Kenya) and revision of the Dietrich collection (Berlin, Germany). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 285:23-75 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85357: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.12.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina ndalakashensis, "Stylohelia pluricostata" = Psammohelia pluricostata
Stylina ndalakashensis Dietrich 1926 stony coral
"Stylohelia pluricostata" = Psammohelia pluricostata Dietrich 1926 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Agathelia sp., "Stylina urgonica" = Agathelia urgonica
Agathelia sp. Reuss 1854 stony coral
"Stylina urgonica" = Agathelia urgonica Dietrich 1926 stony coral