Shaqra Group (Hanifa Fm.) (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (23.1° N, 46.5° E: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 33.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hawtah Mb. 3 Member (Hanifa Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• The Hanifa Formation consisting of a lower carbonate and clayey part with more confined environment and a more calcareous and locally reefal upper part shows a further transgressive trend.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. Manivit, Y.-M. Le Nindre, and D. Vaslet. 1990. Le Jurassique D`Arabie Centrale. Document du BRGM 4(194):25-519 [F. Fursich/S. Hicks/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45896: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Simone Hicks on 13.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Nautiloculinidae
Nautiloculina sp.
Nautiloculina sp. Mohler 1938
 Loftusiacea - Hottingeritidae
Alveosepta jaccardi
 Textulariina - Pfenderinidae
Kurnubia ex gr. wellingsi
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina sp.
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
=sp.3=Foram.
Coccolithophyceae
 Watznaueriales - Watznaueriaceae
Watznaueria manivitae
 Podorhabdales - Biscutaceae
Biscutum sp.
Biscutum sp. Black 1959
=nannoflora
 Podorhabdales - Axopodorhabdaceae
Ethmorhabdus sp.
Ethmorhabdus sp. Noël 1965
=nannoflora
 Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae
"Vekshinella stradneri" = Staurolithites stradneri
"Vekshinella stradneri" = Staurolithites stradneri Rood and Hay 1971
=nannoflora