Har Gevanim, Makhtesh Ramon, Subunit 31 (Triassic of Israel)

Where: Israel (30.6° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° S, 34.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fossiliferous Limestone Member (Saharonim Formation), Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• formation "was deposited under normal, calm, shallow marine conditions"; bed was deposited "below wave base"
• "limestone beds [yielding the fossils] consist of biomicrites and biosparites, dark gray, black and thinly bedded"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: H. R. Feldman. 2002. A new species of Coenothyris (Brachiopoda) from the Triassic (Upper Anisian-Ladinian) of Israel. Journal of Paleontology 76(1):34-42 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72306: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 31.05.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
Arcidae indet. Lamarck 1809 clam
"Arcid indet."
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
"Pseudoplacunopsis fissistriata" = Placunopsis fissistriata
"Pseudoplacunopsis fissistriata" = Placunopsis fissistriata Winckler 1861 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
"Pecten indet."
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
? Daonella sp. Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteriidae indet. Gray 1847 pearl oyster
"byssate pteriid"
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
"Anodontophora munsteri" = Unionites
"Anodontophora munsteri" = Unionites clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria germanica Hohenstein 1914 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Tunethyris blodgetti Feldman 2017
Coenothyris oweni Feldman 2002