Daghani, bed 215 (Jurassic of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 29.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gahodleh Shale Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• "Argovian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale

• shale and calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93001: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys cf. splendens Dollfus 1863 scallop
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop