Where: Kenya (3.4° N, 40.5° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 22.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Golberobe Beds Member, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 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 36483: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Modiolus sowerbianus, "Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
Modiolus sowerbianus mussel
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
Gervillia saggersoni n. sp.
Gervillia saggersoni n. sp. oyster | |
Lopha tifoensis oyster | |
Meleagrinella radiata scallop | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Mactromya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam | |
Cercomya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam | |
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle | |
Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854 clam | |
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? Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam |