Where: Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia (26.4° N, 50.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.7° N, 41.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Umm al-Rua’us Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• A real mess! No lithostratigraphic name given, but literature search suggests that similar Ypressian age facies in the Dammam region belong to the Umm al-Rua’us Formation. The biostratigraphy in the manuscript is not clear, but foraminifera suggest a Ypresian age. Other faunal groups have less well constrained age ranges, with a lot of Danian molluscs.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sideritic, gray, yellow shale and sideritic, gray, yellow marl

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, original aragonite, original calcite, replaced with limonite

Collection methods: Specimens are deposited at the Faculty of Science Ain Shams, University of Cairo.

Primary reference: H. L. Abbass. 1972. Paleontological studies of some Saudi Arabian lower Tertiary fossils. Egyptian Journal of Geology 16(1):35-68 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42459: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.07.2004

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