Where: Kenya (4.0° N, 41.1° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 23.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Muddo Erri Limestones Member, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• Callovian [?-Lower Oxfordian]
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: mechanical
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1965. Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Supplement I [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36472: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Pleurotomaria" sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Nerineidae gen. indet. Zittel 1873 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys curvivarians Dietrich 1933 scallop
Camptonectes auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop | |
Liostrea alimena oyster |