Mombasa, loc. 56 (Jurassic to of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (4.0° S, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° S, 19.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Changamwe Shale Formation, Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• limestone boulders

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J. Weir. 1930. Mesozoic Brachiopoda and Mollusca from Mombasa. In M. M. Wood (ed.), Reports on geological collections from the coastlands of Kenya Colony. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum Glasgow University 4:73-102 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99841: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
Liostrea multiformis Koch and Dunker 1837 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
"Hibolites cf. katrolensis" = Belemnites (Hibolites), "Belemnopsis tanganensis" = Belemnites (Belemnopsis) tanganensis
"Hibolites cf. katrolensis" = Belemnites (Hibolites) belemnite
"Belemnopsis tanganensis" = Belemnites (Belemnopsis) tanganensis Futt 1894 belemnite