Wadi Mujib (V. cauvini zone) (Cretaceous of Jordan)

Where: Jordan (31.5° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 29.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neocardioceras juddii ammonoid zone, Hummar Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Vascoceras cauvini total range zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Cairo University, Geological Museum

Primary reference: M. F. Aly, A. Smadi, and H. Abu Azzam. 2008. Late Cenomanian-Early Turonian ammonites of Jordan. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 27:43-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178508: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.05.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Vascoceras cauvini Chudeau 1909 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Metengonoceras aff. dumbli Cragin 1893 ammonite