Cox - 176 (N.E. Kenya) (Jurassic of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (4.0° N, 41.5° 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 36504: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Globularia hemisphaerica Roemer 1836 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Acteoninidae
"? Actaeonina sp." = Acteonina
"? Actaeonina sp." = Acteonina d'Orbigny 1850 snail
 Heterostrophia -
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon proboscideum Sowerby 1820 file clam