Muddo Erri (indet.) (Jurassic to of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 41.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° S, 24.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daua Limestone Formation, Bathonian to Bathonian (168.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.G. Glenday

• Repository: Hunterian Museum

Primary reference: J. Weir. 1929. Jurassic Fossils from Jubaland, East Africa, Collected by V. G. Glenday, And the Jurassic Geology of Somaliland. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University 1-63 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161808: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 13.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Avonothyris jordanensis Muir-Wood 1925
Avonothyris jordanensis juv. (immature shell)
"Charltonithyris africana" = Arabatia africana Weir 1929
Charltonithyris africana var. (1 specimen is an immature shell)
Loboidothyris cf. aualites Stefanini 1925
Loboidothyris ? cf. aualites
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Plagiostoma) sp." = Plagiostoma
"Lima (Plagiostoma) sp." = Plagiostoma Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys aff. palmyrensis Krumbeck 1905 scallop
valves
 Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Ceromyopsis cf. aequatorialis Muller 1900 clam
valve
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya cf. wimmisensis Gillieron 1886 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya rugosa Roemer 1836 clam