Beneckeia beds, Member B, Wadi Raman, Negev Desert (Triassic of Israel)

Where: Israel (30.6° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° S, 34.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• section of 28-meter thick beds grouped together as member 'B', divided in 4 horizons

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• shales and limy layers

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Brotzen. 1956. Stratigraphical studies on the Triassic vertebrate fossils from Wadi Raman, Israel. Arkiv foer Mineralogi och Geologi 2(9):191-217 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63924: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 25.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Holotype deposited at the Museum of Nat. Hist. Stockholm
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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Beneckeia "sp.1", Beneckeia "sp.2", Beneckeia "sp.3"
Beneckeia "sp.1" von Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
Beneckeia "sp.2" von Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
Beneckeia "sp.3" von Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ramonalinidae
"Myalina beneckei" = Ramonalina beneckei
"Myalina beneckei" = Ramonalina beneckei Brotzen 1956 clam
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina spp., Myalina tommasii
Myalina spp. de Koninck 1842 clam
Myalina tommasii Salomon 1895 clam
var. obtusa
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria sp.
Myophoria sp. Bronn 1834 clam
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Reptilia
 Sauropterygia -
Nothosauria sp.
Nothosauria sp. Baur 1889 nothosaur
 Placodontia -
"Psephosaurus mosis n. sp." = Psephosauriscus mosis
"Psephosaurus mosis n. sp." = Psephosauriscus mosis Brotzen 1957 placodont
 Diapsida - Tanystropheidae
Tanystropheus sp.
Tanystropheus sp. von Meyer 1852 archosauromorph
Osteichthyes
 Stegocephalia -
"Stegocephalia sp." = Stegocephali
"Stegocephalia sp." = Stegocephali Cope 1868 lobe-finned fish
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp.
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch