Cal-ie-Corar: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian, Somalia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Lopha solitaria (Sowerby 1824)
synonym of Actinostreon gregareum
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Opis aff. virdunensis
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya protei (Brongniart 1821)
recombined as Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei
see common names

Geography
Country:Somalia
Coordinates: 3.8° North, 44.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.1° South, 26.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Oolitico medio"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:94548
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-02-26 04:27:54 Last modified:2010-02-26 06:27:54
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-02-26 04:27:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32156. G. Stefanini. 1939. Molluschi del Giuralias della Somalia, Gasteropodi e Lamellibranchi [Jurassic molluscs from Somalia, gastropods and bivalves]. Palaeontographia Italica 32(4):103-270 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]