Cox - 16 (Tendaguru): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Chrysostoma staffi
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Oxytomidae
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Meleagrinella radiata
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Liostrea sp.
Douvillé 1904
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte sp.
Sowerby 1816
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tanzania |
Coordinates: | 9.7° South, 39.3° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 29.4° South, 16.7° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | ||
Age range of interval: | 152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Member: | Trigonia smeei Bed |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone | ||
Environment: | marginal marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,original calcite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | mechanical |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 36294 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-01-25 03:12:47 | Last modified: | 2004-02-12 13:56:27 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-25 03:12:47 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9748. | 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] |