Where: Tanzania (6.7° S, 38.2° E: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 17.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• Lower Bajocian (Aalenian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

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 36403: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 29.01.2004

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