Where: Somalia (11.0° N, 49.1° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 41.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tisje Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• upper Tisje Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone and lithified packstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. M. Pons, J. H. Schroeder, R. Höfling and E. Moussavian. 1992. Upper Cretaceous rudist assemblages in northern Somalia. Geologica Romana 28:219-241 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74508: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chlorophyceae | |
Trinocladus ? tripolitanus Raineri 1922 | |
Cymopolia sp. Lamouroux 1816 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Pyrgo sp. Defrance 1824 | |
Foraminifera | |
Rotalia cf. trochidiformis Lamarck 1804 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Paracunnolites ex gr. humilis" = Cunnolites humilis
"Paracunnolites ex gr. humilis" = Cunnolites humilis Quenstedt 1880 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Vaccinites macgillavryi rudist | |
"Praeradiolites cf. aristidis" = Praeradiolites subtoucasi, Biradiolites bulgaricus
"Praeradiolites cf. aristidis" = Praeradiolites subtoucasi Toucas 1907 rudist
Biradiolites bulgaricus rudist |