Where: Somalia (2.5° N, 42.3° E: paleocoordinates 18.4° S, 24.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)
• "Oolitico inferiore"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: G. Stefanini. 1939. Molluschi del Giuralias della Somalia, Gasteropodi e Lamellibranchi [Jurassic molluscs from Somalia, gastropods and bivalves]. Palaeontographia Italica 32(4):103-270 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94526: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Grammatodon egertonianus Stoliczka 1865 clam | |
Astarte biplicata Stefanini 1939 clam | |
Goniomya lacunosa n. sp., Goniomya literata
Goniomya lacunosa n. sp. Stefanini 1939 clam
Goniomya literata Sowerby 1819 clam | |
Tancredia africana n. sp.
Tancredia africana n. sp. Stefanini 1939 clam | |
Perampliata aulihan n. sp.
Perampliata aulihan n. sp. Stefanini 1939 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Proconulus arabiensis Newton 1908 snail |