Cox - 30 (S.E. Tanganyika) (Jurassic of Tanzania)

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: Nerinea Bed Member, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified 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 36308: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Lopha kindopeensis n. sp. oyster