Where: Ethiopia (10.0° N, 38.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.4° S, 24.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• unit 2: 2035-2145 m
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: G. Ficcarelli. 1968. Fossili Giuresi della serie sedimentaria del Nilo Azurro meridionale [Jurassic fossils from the sedimentary series of the southern Blue Nile]. Rivista Italiana di paleontologia e Stratigrafia 74(1):23-50 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94495: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Recrosalenia aff. somaliensis Currie 1935 sea urchin | |
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Bivalvia | |
Venilicardia hunti Cox 1935 clam | |
"Pholadomya cf. protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei
"Pholadomya cf. protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei Brongniart 1821 clam | |
Eligmus cf. rollandi, "Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Eligmus cf. rollandi Douvillé 1907 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Paracenoceras hexagonum Sowerby 1826 nautiloid | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Zeilleria latifrons Krumbeck 1905 | |
"Terebratula" sp. Müller 1776 | |
""Terebratula" pelagica" = Pentithyris pelagica
""Terebratula" pelagica" = Pentithyris pelagica Rollier 1918 | |
Somalirhynchia somalica Dacque 1905 |