Wadi Aynouna, reef-core facies (Miocene of Saudi Arabia)

Also known as Reef 4259

Where: Saudi Arabia (28.2° N, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 33.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wadi Waqb Member (Jebel Kibrit Formation), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; wackestone and framestone

• Sediments of the reef-core facies consist of moderately sorted boundstones and minor wackestones in the protected areas. Representative thin sections from reef-core sediments gave coralline framestone, coralline rudstone and algal framestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Incomplete taxonomic work

Primary reference: K. M. Al-Kahtany. 2017. Facies development of the Middle Miocene reefal limestone in northwest Saudi Arabia. Journal of African Earth Sciences [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197924: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.11.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea sp.
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Lithodomus sp." = Lithophaga
"Lithodomus sp." = Lithophaga Röding 1798 mussel
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia sp., Meretrix sp.
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
Meretrix sp. Lamarck 1799 venus clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp.
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.