Where: Eritrea (14.4° N, 40.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° S, 28.0° 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 94576: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.03.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Calcarea | |
Stellispongia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 calcareous sponge | |
Gastropoda | |
Turbo sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lopha pulligera" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha pulligera" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris sp. Leske 1778 pencil urchin |