Where: Yemen (15.7° N, 43.6° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 27.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)
• Sequanian-Kimmeridgian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: E. Basse. 1930. Contribution a l'etude du Jurassique superieur (facies Corallien) en Ethiopie et en Arabie meridionale [Studies about the Upper Jurassic (Corallian facies) in Ethiopia and southern Arabia]. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 14:105-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94518: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Anatina (Cercomya) sp." = Cercomya
"Anatina (Cercomya) sp." = Cercomya Agassiz 1843 clam | |
"Isocardia striata" = Ceratomyopsis striata
"Isocardia striata" = Ceratomyopsis striata d'Orbigny 1822 clam | |
"Cardium bannesianum" = Integricardium bannesianum
"Cardium bannesianum" = Integricardium bannesianum Contejean 1859 cockle | |
Lucina substriata clam |