Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.3° N, 48.4° E: paleocoordinates 12.5° S, 31.4° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kilya Member (Naifa Formation), Tithonian to Tithonian (152.1 - 152.1 Ma)
• 15-20 m above lowest exposure
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: calcareous shale and carbonate
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 2617: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 12.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Laevaptychus sp. Trauth 1927 ammonoid aptychus | |
cf. Taramelliceras insistens, "Taramelliceras pseudoflexuosum" = Taramelliceras compsum, Glochiceras pseudocarachteis
"Taramelliceras pseudoflexuosum" = Taramelliceras compsum Oppel 1863 ammonite
Glochiceras pseudocarachteis Favre 1880 ammonite | |
Haploceras staszycii Zejszner 1846 ammonite | |
Torquatisphinctes naifaensis, Pachysphinctes major, Idoceras ahwarense, cf. Idoceras balderum, Nebrodites hospes
Torquatisphinctes naifaensis Howarth 1998 ammonite
Pachysphinctes major Spath 1931 ammonite
Idoceras ahwarense Howarth 1998 ammonite
Nebrodites hospes Neumayr 1873 ammonite | |
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"Sutneria weidmanni" = Sutneria (Enosphinctes) weidmanni, Simaspidoceras argobbae
"Sutneria weidmanni" = Sutneria (Enosphinctes) weidmanni Zeiss 1979 ammonite
Simaspidoceras argobbae Dacque 1905 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Parainoceramus sp." = Kolymia
"Parainoceramus sp." = Kolymia clam | |
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Aulacomyella farquharsoni Cox 1935 oyster | |
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