Where: Morogoro, Tanzania (8.0° S, 36.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° S, 42.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Beaufort Group, Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)
• Karoo Supergroup "Ruhembe Beds"; Cistecephalus zone, upper zone of Lower Beaufort, corresponding to late Capitanian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; micaceous, brown, sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1936. Karroo Lamellibranchia from Tanganyika Territory and Madagascar. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 92(365):32-56 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41488: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam
Liebea cf. squamosa Sowerby 1829 clam | |
Gervillia stockleyi n. sp., Gervillia kidodiensis n. sp., Gervillia piriformis n. sp., "Gervillia tealei n. sp." = Bakevellia tealei
Gervillia stockleyi n. sp. oyster
Gervillia kidodiensis n. sp. oyster
Gervillia piriformis n. sp. oyster
"Gervillia tealei n. sp." = Bakevellia tealei Cox 1936 oyster | |
Modiolopsis stockleyi n. sp., Modiolopsis kidodiensis n. sp.
Modiolopsis stockleyi n. sp. clam
Modiolopsis kidodiensis n. sp. clam |