Cox - 154 (N.E. Kenya): Oxfordian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Palaeolophidae
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Lopha solitaria
(Sowerby 1824)
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synonym of Actinostreon gregareum | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Liostrea dubiensis
(Contejean 1859)
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recombined as Praeexogyra dubiensis | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Lopha sp.
Röding 1798
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Kenya |
Coordinates: | 3.4° North, 40.5° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 16.9° South, 22.8° 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
Member: | Golberobe Beds |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" | ||
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: | 36482 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-02-01 07:47:33 | Last modified: | 2004-02-01 10:00:47 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-01 07:47:33 |
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] |