Beersheba (Miocene of Israel)
Where: Israel (31.3° N, 34.8° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 34.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
• friable to hard, porous yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Primary reference: G. S. Blake. 1935. On the occurrence of marine Miocene in Palestine. Geological Magazine 72:140-142 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99605: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
Pecten benedictus scallop | |
"Ostrea gryphoides" = Crassostrea gryphoides
"Ostrea gryphoides" = Crassostrea gryphoides Schlotheim 1813 oyster | |
Arca noe ark | |
"Cardium (Trachycardium) multicostatum" = Europicardium multicostatum, Cardium cf. erinaceum
"Cardium (Trachycardium) multicostatum" = Europicardium multicostatum Brocchi 1814 cockle
Cardium cf. erinaceum cockle | |
Antigona miocenica venus clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral |