Jebel Aqabah, bed 1 (Cretaceous of the United Arab Emirates)

Where: United Arab Emirates (25.0° N, 55.8° E: paleocoordinates 6.7° N, 46.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qahlah Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Basal 60 cm shell bed immediately overlying unweathered ophiolite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• Basal calcarenite at Jebel Aqabah probably represents a shoreface sand, as suggested by the well-sorted clasts and fossils.
• "Calcarenite"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1995. Maastrichtian ammonites from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 51:241-250 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175472: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras sp.
Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite