Where: Somalia (10.2° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 29.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bihen Limestone Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)
• 2 levels: lower Callovian unit and upper Argovian unit
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. M. Muir-Wood. 1935. Jurassic Brachiopoda. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 75-147 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93020: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Bulla macfadyeni n. sp.1
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Bivalvia | |
"Nucula cuneiformis" = Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis1
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"Mytilus (Modiolus) imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus1, Mytilus jurensis1, "Mytilus (Pharomytilus) cf. perplicatus" = Inoperna perplicata1, "Mytilus (Arcomytilus) laitmairensis" = Arcomytilus laitmairensis1
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"Mytilus (Musculus) somaliensis n. sp." = Musculus somaliensis1
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"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana1
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"Lopha solitaria" = Actinostreon gregareum1
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"Lima (Plagiostoma) harronis" = Plagiostoma harronis1
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"Parallelodon egertonianus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus1
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"Pholadomya (Homomya) inornata" = Homomya inornata1, Pholadomya aubryi1, Pholadomya lirata1, "Pholadomya somaliensis n. sp." = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) somaliensis1
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Protocardia somaliensis n. sp.1
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"Ceromyopsis arabica n. sp." = Ceratomyopsis arabica1, "Ceromyopsis somaliensis" = Ceratomyopsis somaliensis1, "Ceromyopsis striata" = Ceratomyopsis striata1
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Pseudisocardia macfadyeni n. sp.1
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"Astarte scytalis" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana1
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Rhynchonellata | |
Daghanirhynchia kabeitensis, Daghanirhynchia daghaniensis, Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni, Somalirhynchia bihendulensis, Somalirhynchia africana, Somalirhynchia somalica, Somalirhynchia bihenensis n. sp.
Daghanirhynchia kabeitensis Muir-Wood 1935
Daghanirhynchia daghaniensis Muir-Wood 1935
Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni Muir-Wood 1935
Somalirhynchia bihendulensis Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia africana Weir 1925
Somalirhynchia somalica Dacque 1905
Somalirhynchia bihenensis n. sp. Muir-Wood 1935 | |
"Loboidothyris cf. jubaensis" = Tubithyris jubaensis
"Loboidothyris cf. jubaensis" = Tubithyris jubaensis Weir 1929 | |
? Heimia incurvirostrum, ""Terebratula" ferrandii" = Kutchithyris ferrandii, Somalithyris bihendulensis n. sp., Somalithyris macfadyeni n. gen. n. sp., ""Terebratula" cf. subsella" = Xestosina subsella, ""Terebratula" cf. suprajurensis" = Xestosina suprajurensis
? Heimia incurvirostrum Muir-Wood 1935
""Terebratula" ferrandii" = Kutchithyris ferrandii Stefanini 1932
Somalithyris bihendulensis n. sp. Muir-Wood 1935
Somalithyris macfadyeni n. gen. n. sp. Muir-Wood 1935
""Terebratula" cf. subsella" = Xestosina subsella Leymerie 1846
""Terebratula" cf. suprajurensis" = Xestosina suprajurensis Thurmann 1862 | |
""Terebratula" ruspolii" = Monsardithyris ruspolii
""Terebratula" ruspolii" = Monsardithyris ruspolii Stefanini 1932 | |
Cererithyris weiri, Ptyctothyris daghaniensis, Striithyris somaliensis n. gen. n. sp., ""Terebratula" aualites" = Loboidothyris aualites, "Charltonithyris africana" = Arabatia africana, Bihenithyris weiri
Ptyctothyris daghaniensis Muir-Wood 1935
Striithyris somaliensis n. gen. n. sp. Muir-Wood 1935
""Terebratula" aualites" = Loboidothyris aualites Stefanini 1925
"Charltonithyris africana" = Arabatia africana Weir 1929
Bihenithyris weiri Muir-Wood 1935 | |
"Terebratula" cf. anatina de Loriol 1895 | |
Anthozoa | |
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Demospongiae | |
"Milleporidium somaliense" = Steineria somaliensis2
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