Where: Eritrea (14.5° N, 40.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° S, 28.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: V. Diaz-Romero. 1931. Contributo allo studio della fauna Giurese della Dancalia centrale [The Jurassic fauna of the central Danakil]. Palaeontographia Italica 31:1-61 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94569: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.03.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemicidaris abyssinica Blanford 1870 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Modiola tulipea, "Modiola perplicata" = Inoperna perplicata
Modiola tulipea Lamarck 1819 mussel
"Modiola perplicata" = Inoperna perplicata Etallon 1863 mussel | |
"Lopha cf. solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha cf. solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Mactromya rugosa Roemer 1836 clam |