Where: Tanzania (6.8° S, 38.2° E: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 17.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Station Beds Member, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
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 36401: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 29.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus anatinus Smith 1817 mussel | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Bositra buchi Roemer 1836 oyster | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam | |
Pholadomya lirata Sowerby 1818 clam
Osteomya dilata Phillips 1829 clam | |
Mactromya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam | |
Lucina despecta clam |