Where: Jordan (32.1° N, 35.6° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 30.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hamam Formation (Azab Group), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified mudstone
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 35674: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Simone Hicks on 04.01.2004, edited by Franz Fursich
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Purpuroidea perstriata periwinkle | |
Bivalvia | |
Arcomytilus laitmairensis de Loriol 1883 mussel | |
Eligmus asiaticus oyster | |
Protocardia africana cockle | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Cererithyris jabbokensis" = Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata
"Cererithyris jabbokensis" = Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata Suess 1856 | |
Eudesia (Xenorina) sp. King 1850 | |
Anthozoa | |
Chomatoseris sp. Thomas 1935 stony coral
Comoseris sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral |