Where: Kenya (4.0° S, 39.7° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° S, 20.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Neocomian (145.0 - 125.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: H. Löser. 2008. Early Cretaceous (Late Valanginian-Aptian) coral faunas from east Africa (Tanzania, Kenya) and revision of the Dietrich collection (Berlin, Germany). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 285:23-75 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85379: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.12.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Pseudomyriophyllia carpathica Morycowa 1971 stony coral | |
Synastrea meandra stony coral |