Jebel Billum IV-11 (Jurassic of Yemen)

Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.3° N, 48.4° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° S, 31.2° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Shuqra Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• 23 m below top, the Nautiloid bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• lithology described as limestone

Primary reference: M. K. Howarth and N. J. Morris. 1998. The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology) 54(1):1-32 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2602: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Paracenoceratidae
Paracenoceras meridionale Tinant 1987 nautiloid
originally entered as "Paracenocersas meridionale"
Paracenoceras calloviense Oppel 1858 nautiloid
originally entered as "Paracenocersas calloviense"