Where: Saudi Arabia (23.3° N, 46.6° E: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 33.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hanifa Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• 52.7 m above the top of the Tuwaiq Mountain limestone
• 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 184582: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Perisphinctes cf. africanus ammonite |