Cox - 121 (N.E. Tanganyika) (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (5.0° S, 39.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.8° S, 18.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

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 36436: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 29.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Ampullospira quennelli n. sp." = Ampullina (Ampullospira)
"Ampullospira quennelli n. sp." = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella aviculoides Sowerby 1814 oyster
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya quadrata Rollier 1913 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
"Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei
"Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei Brongniart 1821 clam