Where: Kenya (3.6° N, 41.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 21.7° S, 35.2° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Asaharbito Beds Member, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• Bathonian [? or Callovian]
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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 36460: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Aporrhaidae gen. indet. Gray 1850 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam | |
"Liostrea dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis
"Liostrea dubiensis" = Praeexogyra dubiensis Contejean 1859 oyster | |
Astarte ayersi n. sp.
Astarte ayersi n. sp. clam | |
Sphaeriola madridi d'Archiac 1843 clam | |
? Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
? Anisocardia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam | |
Corbula asaharbitensis n. sp.
Corbula asaharbitensis n. sp. clam | |
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam | |
? Arcomya sp. Agassiz 1838 clam | |
Cuspidaria ayersi n. sp.
Cuspidaria ayersi n. sp. clam |