Where: Saudi Arabia (28.4° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 26.0° N, 31.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wadi al Kils Member (Tayran Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• Age given as Late Oligocene
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified framestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: W.-C. Dullo, H. Hötzl, and A. R. Jado. 1983. New stratigraphical results from the Tertiary sequence of the Midyan area, NW Saudi Arabia; Contributions to the geology of the eastern margin of the Red Sea. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 12(2):75-83 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34409: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 30.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster sp. Lamarck 1801 sand dollar | |
Anthozoa | |
Caulastrea sp. Dana 1846 stony coral |