Where: Saudi Arabia (25.9° N, 45.8° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 37.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hajajah Member (Aruma Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• "Cyclolites zone", lower part of the member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: M. A. G. El-Asa'ad. 1990. Maastrichtian species of the coral genus Cunnolites from Saudi Arabia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 10(4):633-642 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85308: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Cunnolites (Cunnolites) elliptica, "Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolites) reussi" = Cunnolites polymorphus, "Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) minima" = Cunnolites cancellata, Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) humilis
Cunnolites (Cunnolites) elliptica stony coral
"Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolites) reussi" = Cunnolites polymorphus Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) minima" = Cunnolites cancellata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) humilis Quenstedt 1880 stony coral |