Where: Jordan (32.1° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 29.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shuayb Formation (Ajlun Group), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. C. Perrilliat, F. Ahmad, and F. J. Vega. 2006. Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) bivalves from northern Jordan, Middle East. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 23(1):96-106 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66799: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Arca (Eonavicula) sp." = Eonavicula
"Arca (Eonavicula) sp." = Eonavicula Arkell 1929 clam | |
? Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
? Mytiloides sp. Brongniart 1822 clam | |
Plicatula raynesi scallop
Plicatula forneli scallop
"Plicatula cf. ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop | |
Neithea (Neithea) dutrugei Dutrugei 1862 scallop | |
"Exogyra columba" = Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum, "Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis, Exogyra conica
"Exogyra columba" = Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Exogyra conica Sowerby 1813 oyster | |
Lucina useilli clam | |
? Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Cardium saportae cockle
Granocardium (? Criocardium) sp. Gabb 1869 cockle
Protocardia multistriata cockle
? Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle |