Ceratites zone 3, Member D, Wadi Raman, Negev Desert (Triassic of Israel)

Where: Israel (30.6° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 11.8° S, 34.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• zone 3 has a total thickness of 5 m; Ceratitan age (according to Spath); reitzi zone (according to Spath)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified, brown marl

• light brown marls and limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Brotzen. 1956. Stratigraphical studies on the Triassic vertebrate fossils from Wadi Raman, Israel. Arkiv foer Mineralogi och Geologi 2(9):191-217 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63949: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 28.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Ceratites sp. de Haan 1825 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Joannitidae
Joannites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Arcestes sp. Suess 1865 ceratite
Reptilia
 Placodontia - Placodontidae
Placodus sp. Agassiz 1833 placodont
 Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Nothosaurus sp. Münster 1834 diapsid