Where: Israel (30.6° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 28.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Late Turonian or Earliest Coniacian (now considered Late Turonian only)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, white limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Geological Survey of Israel
Primary reference: A. Parnes. 1964. Coniacian ammonites from the Negev (Southern Israel). Geological Survey of Israel, Bulletin (39)1-41 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69832: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 08.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Coilopoceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite | |
Echinoidea | |
"Caenholectypus sp." = Coenholectypus
"Caenholectypus sp." = Coenholectypus Pomel 1883 sea urchin | |
Hemiaster spp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin | |
Clypeopygus spp. sea urchin | |
Rachiosoma sp. Pomel 1883 sea urchin |