Locality 52, Khashm Dhibi area (Aramco S-1206) (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (24.3° N, 46.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 33.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dhruma Formation, Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Micromphalites fauna, fossils loose on surface between 81 and 86 m above 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 184569: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Micromphalites cf. busqueti de Grossouvre 1919 ammonite