Where: Israel (30.0° N, 35.1° E: paleocoordinates 9.4° N, 28.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ora Formation, Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Upper part of formation. Carbonate intercalations in the Lower Shale Member contain latest Cenomanian to early Middle Turonian ammonites (Freund and Raab, 1969; Bartov et al., 1972; Lewy, 1989). Overlain by the argillaceous limestones of Gerofit Formation (Bartov et al., 1972) with the Middle Turonian ammonite Collignoniceras woollgari (Mantell) (at Kippat Eshet: Sakal, 1967) and other normal marine fossils. Thus, the Middle Turonian age assignment of the Upper Shale Member is based on the ammonite records immediately below the Vroman Bank (Lewy, 1989) and in the overlying Gerofit Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: I. A. Dobruskina, A. G. Ponomarenko, and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1997. Fossil insect findings in Israel. Paleontological Journal 31(5):528-533 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103446: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 28.01.2011

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