Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 41.4° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 24.9° S, 36.0° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dakacha Limestones Member, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• 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 36508: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Plagiostoma sublaeviuscula" = Plagiostoma sublaeviusculum
"Plagiostoma sublaeviuscula" = Plagiostoma sublaeviusculum Krumbeck 1905 file clam |