Mombasa, Kisauno (Cretaceous of Kenya)

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 - 130.0 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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Synastraeidae
Synastrea meandra stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Pseudomyriophyllia carpathica Morycowa 1971 stony coral