Wadi Umm Jafna, Wadi Uhaymir, south of Wadi At Tayan, lower Numayri Member (Cambrian of Jordan)

Where: Jordan (30.9° N, 35.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° S, 139.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Numayri Member (Burj Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• Early–Middle Cambrian boundary interval, probably equivalent to parts of Series 3, stage 5.

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone and siliciclastic

• Numayri Member includes a variety of marginal-marine environments including open and restricted marine areas, shoals, lagoons, sabkhas. The Numayri Member yields various macrofossils including trilobites, brachiopods and hyolithids, but also trace fossils
• limestones, dolostones, minor siliciclastics

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: O. Elicki. 2011. First skeletal microfauna from the Cambrian Series 3 of the Jordan Rift Valley (Middle East). Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists (42)153-173 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 139932: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 23.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Hyolith opercula
Hexactinellida
 Lyssacinosa - Stiodermatidae
"Rigbyella sp." = Rigbykia
"Rigbyella sp." = Rigbykia Ozdikmen 2009 glass sponge
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Eiffelia araniformis
Eiffelia araniformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida -
? Ginospina sp.
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp., Archiasterella cf. hirundo, Allonnia sp.
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Allonnia sp. Doré and Reid 1965
few specimens