Where: Kenya (2.5° N, 40.4° E: paleocoordinates 17.7° S, 22.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bur Mayo Limestones Member, Bathonian to Bathonian (168.3 - 163.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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 36458: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Exelissa dodsoni n. sp.
Exelissa dodsoni n. sp. snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana dodsoni n. sp.
Nuculana dodsoni n. sp. pointed nut clam | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Pholadomya ovalis Sowerby 1819 clam | |
Ceratomya sp. Sandberger 1864 clam | |
Brachidontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel | |
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam |