Where: Kenya (4.0° N, 41.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.5° S, 24.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dakacha Limestones Member, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: mechanical
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1965. Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Supplement I [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36503: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Harpagodes thirriae snail | |
Globularia hemisphaerica Roemer 1836 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lopha gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
Modiolus virgulinus mussel
Modiolus perplicatus mussel | |
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878 clam | |
Mactromya quadrata Rollier 1913 clam |