Where: Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 16.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nerinea Bed Member, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• Oxfordian? - Kimmeridgian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Janensch's expedition (1909-1913)
Primary reference: W. O. Dietrich. 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII/2, Teil 2 1-86 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35572: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.12.2003, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Nerinella cutleri snail | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Modiola (Pharomytilus) perplicata" = Inoperna perplicata
"Modiola (Pharomytilus) perplicata" = Inoperna perplicata Etallon 1863 mussel | |
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"Oxytoma inaequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
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Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
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Pinna cf. constantini de Loriol and Pellat 1874 oyster | |
Exogyra spp. Say 1820 oyster | |
Protocardia schencki cockle | |
Pleuromya tellina Agassiz 1842 clam | |
Thracia incerta Thurmann 1836 clam | |
"Astarte krenkeli" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana Holdhaus 1913 clam | |
"Trigonia (Indotrigonia) dietrichi" = Rutitrigonia dietrichi, Trigonia (Indotrigonia) smeei
"Trigonia (Indotrigonia) dietrichi" = Rutitrigonia dietrichi Lange 1914 clam
Trigonia (Indotrigonia) smeei Sowerby 1840 clam |