Where: Makkah, Saudi Arabia (21.2° N, 41.4° E: paleocoordinates 6.7° N, 32.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Umm Himar Formation), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• Lower 2-3 m of the Middle Member of Umm Himar Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; massive, gypsiferous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1971-1979; reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: C. T. Madden, F. C. Whitmore Jr., D. L. Schmidt and I. M. Naqvi. 1995. The Umm Himar Formation (Paleocene) of Saudi Arabia and Associated Strata: Stratigraphy, Vertebrate Fauna, and Paleoenvironment. In F. C. Whitmore Jr., C. T. Madden (eds.), U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2093(A):1-19 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140955: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 19.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Pycnodus sp. Agassiz 1833 | |
Amiiformes indet. Hay 1929 bowfin | |
Reptilia | |
Dyrosauridae indet. crocodilian |