Where: Eritrea (14.1° N, 41.1° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 27.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: V. Diaz-Romero. 1931. Contributo allo studio della fauna Giurese della Dancalia centrale [The Jurassic fauna of the central Danakil]. Palaeontographia Italica 31:1-61 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94567: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.03.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis
"Mytilus laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis de Loriol 1883 mussel | |
"Parallelodon egertonianus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus
"Parallelodon egertonianus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus Stoliczka 1865 clam | |
Lopha stefaninii n. sp., "Arctostrea aualites" = Eligmus aualites, Liostrea sp., Exogyra cf. solea, "Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, "Exogyra vinassai n. sp." = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Lopha stefaninii n. sp. Diaz-Romero 1931 oyster
"Arctostrea aualites" = Eligmus aualites Stefanini 1925 oyster
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster
Exogyra cf. solea Müller 1900 oyster
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
"Exogyra vinassai n. sp." = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
"Lopha pulligera" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha pulligera" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
Polychaeta | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Plectoidothyris engeli" = Sellithyris engeli
"Plectoidothyris engeli" = Sellithyris engeli Rollier 1918 | |
"Lophrothyris subsella" = Xestosina subsella
"Lophrothyris subsella" = Xestosina subsella Leymerie 1846 | |
? Loboidothyris vinassai n. sp.
? Loboidothyris vinassai n. sp. Diaz-Romero 1931 | |
Somalirhynchia smelliei Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia jordanica Noetling 1887 |