Bed No. 353-354, Jurayfah (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (25.5° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 33.7° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tulites tuwaiqensis ammonoid zone, Middle Member (Dhruma Formation), Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• unit D4

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Alméras, M. Cougnon, R. Enay and C. Mangold. 2010. Brachiopodes du Jurasique Inférieur et moyen d'Arabie Saoudite centrale. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de Lyon 168:1-247 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141340: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 25.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Oxycerites sp. Rollier 1909 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tulitidae
Tulites erymnoides Arkell 1952 ammonite
Tulites tuwaiqensis Arkell 1952 ammonite
Tulites arabicus Arkell 1952 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae