K 198 Danakil Alps (Jurassic to of Eritrea)

Where: Eritrea (14.5° N, 40.7° E: paleocoordinates 9.9° S, 28.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Antalo Limestone Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)

• 30 m thick unit in the upper part of the 200 m thick Antalo Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Jordan. 1971. Megafossilien des Jura aus dem Antalo-Kalk von Nord-Äthiopien [Jurassic megafossils from the Antalo Limestone of northern Ethiopia]. Beihefte zum Geologischen Jahrbuch 116:141-171 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92925: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Mytilus (Arcomytilus) laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis
"Mytilus (Arcomytilus) laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis de Loriol 1883 mussel
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Lopha solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida -
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Kutchithyris sp. Buckman 1917
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
? Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stromatoporoidea
  -
? Milleporidium sp. Steinmann 1903 stromatoporoid sponge