Khashm Tawqi, Saudi Arabia (Cretaceous of Saudi Arabia)

Also known as Reef 1958

Where: Saudi Arabia (25.4° N, 46.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 38.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Khanasir Member (Aruma Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• 2.5 m thick rudist biostrom with a marly interbed

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: P. W. Skelton and G. M. A. El-Asa'ad. 1992. A new canaliculate rudist bivalve from the Aruma Formation of central Saudi Arabia. Geologica Romana 28:105-117 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34711: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 17.09.2003, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Rudists only
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Branching corals
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Durania cornupastoris Des Moulins 1826 rudist
Biradiolites sp. d'Orbigny 1850 rudist
 Hippuritida - Trechmannellidae