Cox - 153 (N.E. Kenya): Oxfordian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Falcimytilus jurensis
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 2.6° North, 40.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 17.7° South, 22.6° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Oxfordian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Oxfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Oxfordian, beds immediately underlying Golberobe beds | |||||
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: | 36481 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-02-01 07:45:11 | Last modified: | 2004-02-01 09:45:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-01 07:45:11 |
| 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] |