Nahal Aqrav, Wadi Akbar (coord. 1170/0008) (Cretaceous of Israel)

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

• at the top of white chalky 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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Coilopoceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite
Echinoidea
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
"Caenholectypus sp." = Coenholectypus
"Caenholectypus sp." = Coenholectypus Pomel 1883 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster spp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
Clypeopygus spp. sea urchin
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Rachiosoma sp. Pomel 1883 sea urchin