Yad Hana, Tziqla Fm, Sample 390a BB (Miocene of Israel)

Where: Israel (32.3° N, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 34.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tziqla Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• Coral reef

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Buchbinder. 1977. Systematics and paleoenvironments of the calcareous algae from the Miocene (Tortonian) Tziqlag Formation, Israel. Micropaleontology 23(4):415-435 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143311: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae