Section 9, Batn El Ghoul area (Cretaceous of Jordan)

Where: Jordan (29.8° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° N, 28.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: FHS Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• upper FHS Formation

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; claystone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: R. Berndt. 2004. Palaeoecology and taxonomy of the macrobenthic fauna from the Upper Cretaceous Ajlun Group, southern Jordan. [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154969: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
? Nemodon sp. Conrad 1869 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae