Mintaq Salt Dome-19 (Cretaceous of Yemen)

Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.6° N, 48.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 20.8° S, 42.3° E (Wright 2013)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mintaq Member (Hajar Formation), Berriasian (143.1 - 137.1 Ma)

• 27.5 m above base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, calcareous mudstone and marl

• lithology described as grey, fie-grained thing-bedded limestone with marly partings

Primary reference: M. K. Howarth and N. J. Morris. 1998. The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology) 54(1):1-32 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2637: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 12.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
? Dalmasiceras sp.
? Dalmasiceras sp. ammonite
originally entered as "?Dalmasiceras sp."