Where: Israel (30.6° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° S, 34.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Saharonim Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Limestone and marl member. The age of the subunit, according to Parnes et al. (1985), is early Ladinian, lying 10 m above the beds containing Gevanites awadi Parnes (Fassanian) and 20 m below the beds with Gevanites epigonus Parnes and G. cornutus Parnes (early Longobardian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: H. R. Feldman. 2013. Menathyris wilsoni (Brachiopoda), new genus and species from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of southern Israel. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 83:81-85 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154685: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.03.2014

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