Where: Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 17.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Trigonia Smeei Bed Member, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Janensch's expedition 1909-1913
Primary reference: W. O. Dietrich. 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII/2, Teil 2 1-86 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35568: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris glandifera pencil urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnopsis aff. tanganensis Futt 1894 belemnite | |
Lissoceras elimatum ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Gervilleia (Gervillella) sp." = Gervillia
| |
Pseudomonotis tendagurensis scallop | |
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
Meleagrinella radiata scallop | |
Chlamys curvivarians Dietrich 1933 scallop | |
"Trigonia dubia" = Iotrigonia dubia, Trigonia (Indotrigonia) smeei
"Trigonia dubia" = Iotrigonia dubia Kitchin 1903 clam
Trigonia (Indotrigonia) smeei Sowerby 1840 clam | |
Herzogina weissermeli, "Astarte (Coelastarte) cf. cotteausia" = Neocrassina (Coelastarte)
"Astarte (Coelastarte) cf. cotteausia" = Neocrassina (Coelastarte) clam | |