Also known as Reef 1547

Where: Saudi Arabia (29.8° N, 39.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.0° S, 85.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Murayr Member (Jauf Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• uppermost unit of Jauf Formation; 27.1 Meter thick. PJW: Was "Transition Zone" member; the uppermost unit is now called the Murayr member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: A. A. Al-Laboun and B.H. Walthall. 1988. The Devonian of the Arabian Peninsula. Devonian of the World: Regional Syntheses 1:569-577 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80262: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 10.04.2008

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