Sample 80 (Jurassic of Ethiopia)

Where: Ethiopia (13.6° N, 39.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 26.9° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: AL3 Member (Antalo Formation), Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Perhaps still Oxfordian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• limestone-marl interbedding

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite, replaced with silica

Collected in 2007; reposited in the MfN

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: W. Kiessling, D. K. Pandey, M. Schemm-Gregory, H. Mewis, and M. Aberhan. 2011. Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities. Journal of African Earth Sciences 59:195-214 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94314: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 16.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Comoseris meandrinoides Michelin 1843 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
Cladophyllia excelsa Koby 1888 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop