Where: Tanzania (9.8° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 17.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Trigonia Smeei Bed Member, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Janensch's expedition 1909-1913
Primary reference: W. O. Dietrich. 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII/2, Teil 2 1-86 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79029: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.02.2008
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Modiola (Pharomytilus) perplicata" = Inoperna perplicata
"Modiola (Pharomytilus) perplicata" = Inoperna perplicata Etallon 1863 mussel | |
Meleagrinella radiata scallop | |
Pseudomonotis tendagurensis scallop | |
Chlamys curvivarians Dietrich 1933 scallop | |
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop | |
Protocardia schencki cockle | |
Trigonia (Indotrigonia) smeei Sowerby 1840 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Rhytidopilus obliquus snail | |
Pseudomelania sp. Pictet and Campiche 1862 snail | |
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Subdichotomoceras cf. sparsiplicatum ammonite |