Where: Ethiopia (9.7° N, 38.2° E: paleocoordinates 10.6° S, 24.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Antalo Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• Lower Limestone Member (LLM; intercalated with gypsum and dominated by mudstone, claystone and shales; this study; = the former Gohatsion Formation of Assefa, 1981, 1991).
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Department of Geology, School of Applied Natural Science, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama (Ethiopia)
Primary reference: S. Jain. 2019. First Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) nautiloid Paracenoceras Spath from Ethiopia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 149:84-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197160: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.10.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Paracenoceras aff. prohexagonum Spath 1935 nautiloid |