Where: Jordan (32.2° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 30.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dhahab Formation (Azab Group), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified floatstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, original calcite, replaced with calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• Specimens housed in Palaeontological Institute, Würzburg (PIW)
Primary reference: F. Ahmad. 1998. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the benthic macroinvertebrate fauna from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern Jordan. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35322: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 28.11.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) acuminata Hartmann 1830 clam | |
Eligmus asiaticus oyster
Eligmus rollandi Douvillé 1907 oyster
Eligmus polytypus Eudes-Deslongchamps 1856 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Daghanirhynchia "sp. A" Muir-Wood 1935 | |
Eudesia (Xenorina) sp. King 1850 | |
"Cererithyris jabbokensis" = Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata
"Cererithyris jabbokensis" = Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata Suess 1856 |