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: lithified floatstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, original calcite, replaced with calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
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 35377: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 08.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pseudomelania niortensis snail | |
Purpuroidea perstriata periwinkle | |
Proconulus sp. Cossmann 1918 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya lirata Sowerby 1818 clam | |
Trichites sp. Lhuyd 1760 oyster | |
Eligmus asiaticus oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Daghanirhynchia "sp. A" Muir-Wood 1935 | |
"Cererithyris jabbokensis" = Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata, "Cererithyris cf. jabbokensis" = Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata, Monsardithyris ventricosa
"Cererithyris jabbokensis" = Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata Suess 1856
"Cererithyris cf. jabbokensis" = Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata Suess 1856
Monsardithyris ventricosa Hartmann 1830 | |
Tubithyris sp. Buckman 1917 |