Cox - 75 (S.E. Tanganyika): Callovian, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Harpagodes aff. oceani (Brongniart 1821)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Eopecten aubryi (Douville 1886)
synonym of Eopecten velatus
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania
Coordinates: 9.3° South, 39.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.3° South, 16.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Environment: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:36355
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-01-26 08:17:54 Last modified:2004-01-26 10:17:54
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-26 08:17:54
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]