Where: Tanzania (9.4° S, 39.4° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 33.4° S, 29.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pindiro Shales Member, Bajocian (170.9 - 168.2 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 36363: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Procerithiidae indet. Cossmann 1905 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
? Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam |