Where: Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 16.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Dinosaur Member (Tendaguru Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; fine-grained, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: mechanical
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1965. Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Supplement I [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36282: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Eomiodon dinosaurianum n. sp.
Eomiodon dinosaurianum n. sp. clam |