Level 4 fish, Stanleyville, Jurassic: Aalenian - Bathonian, Congo-Kinshasa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ligulelliformes
Ligulella sluysi De Saint-Seine 1955
see common names

Geography
Country:Congo-Kinshasa State/province:Tshopo
Coordinates: 0.3° North, 25.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.9° South, 9.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Key time interval:Aalenian - Bathonian
Age range of interval:174.70000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Stanleyville
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Stanleyville Formation is sometimes named the Kisangani Formation, Specimens collected from "level 4"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Black bituminous shales
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:193535
Authorizer:P. Novack-Gottshall Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Modifier:P. Novack-Gottshall
Created:2018-05-25 10:12:55 Last modified:2018-06-03 17:52:37
Access level:the public Released:2018-05-25 10:12:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

65749. L. Taverne. 2011. Ostéologie et relations de Ligulella (Halecostomi, Ligulelliformes nov. ord.), poisson du Jurassique moyen de Kisangani (Formation de Stanleyville) en République Démocratique du Congo. Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. Aardwetenschappen = Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la Terre 81:213-233 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]