Where: Tanzania (9.5° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 17.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pindiro Shales Member, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• Bajocian (?)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
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 36314: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Corbula pindiroensis n. sp.
Corbula pindiroensis n. sp. clam |