Where: Saudi Arabia (24.6° N, 46.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 34.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dhruma Formation, Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)
• Ermoceras fauna, weathered-out fossils from the slope of escarpment covering 0 to 14 m below its top (calculated about 13 to 27 m below the top of the Dhibi limestone member)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SM
Primary reference: W. J. Arkell. 1952. Jurassic ammonites from Jebel Tuwaiq, central Arabia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 236:241-313 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184556: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Teloceras cf. labrum, Ermoceras (Telermoceras) cf. splendens, Ermoceras (Kosmermoceras) elegans, Ermoceras (Ermoceras) aff. mogharense
Teloceras cf. labrum Buckman 1922 ammonite
Ermoceras (Telermoceras) cf. splendens Arkell 1952 ammonite
Ermoceras (Kosmermoceras) elegans Douvillé 1916 ammonite
Ermoceras (Ermoceras) aff. mogharense Douvillé 1916 ammonite |