Wadi Malham section, 110m-150m, early Kimmeridgian (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (25.2° N, 46.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 34.4° E)

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When: J1 unit Member (Jubaila Limestone Formation), Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; sandstone and grainstone

• Sharp-base intraclast peloidal skeletal grainstone, oncoidal locally. Storm dominated inner platform.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Schneider and A. Al‑Mojel. 2022. First record of Plesiodiceras (Bivalvia, Hippuritida, Epidiceratidae) from the late Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Saudi Arabia, and its palaeobiogeographic significance. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 15:920 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225469: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.05.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Paracenoceratidae
Paracenoceras aff. hexagonum, Paracenoceras aff. wepferi
Paracenoceras aff. wepferi von Loesch 1914
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes aff. jubailensis
Perisphinctes aff. jubailensis Arkell 1952 ammonite