Cox - 131 (N.E. Kenya) (Jurassic to of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (2.5° N, 40.4° E: paleocoordinates 17.7° S, 22.7° 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 limestone

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 36459: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam