Where: Ethiopia (9.1° N, 41.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° S, 28.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Graua Member (Amba Aradam Formation), Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, burrowed, peloidal, silty wackestone
•Texturally, the rock is a pelletal wackestone with diffuse quartz silt and some coprolites
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: A. Bosellini, A. Russo, and R. Schroeder. 1999. Stratigraphic evidence for an Early Aptian sea-level fluctuation: the Graua Limestone of south-eastern Ethiopia. Cretaceous Research 20:783-791 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 46587: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 20.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Exogyra flabellata" = Ceratostreon flabellatum
"Exogyra flabellata" = Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail |