Where: Jordan (31.6° N, 35.6° E: paleocoordinates 14.8° S, 35.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)
• Considered contemporary to the Early Triassic Werfen Formation (Cox 1932)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. S. Blake; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1932. Further notes on the Trans-Jordan Trias. Journal of Natural History 10(55):93-113 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 202321: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.07.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
"Lingula tenuissima" = Lingularia tenuissima
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Bivalvia | |
"Pseudomonotis (Claraia) aurita" = Claraia aurita
"Pseudomonotis (Claraia) aurita" = Claraia aurita Hauer 1850 scallop One left (L. 57447) and three right (L. 57448-50) valves
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"Anodontophora fassaensis" = Unionites fassaensis
"Anodontophora fassaensis" = Unionites fassaensis Wissmann 1841 clam One left and one right valve (L. 57449-50)
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"Myophoria laevigata" = Neoschizodus laevigatus, "Myophoria praeorbicularis" = Neoschizodus praeorbicularis
"Myophoria praeorbicularis" = Neoschizodus praeorbicularis Bittner 1901 clam 'Several moulds' (L. 57449-50)
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