Ain Bukhara, S1045 (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (24.2° N, 46.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 33.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Thambites ammonoid zone, Middle Member (Dhruma Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• 14.5-16.5 m above Dhibi Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1989. Jurassic brachiopods of Saudi Arabia. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 65:1-213 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98719: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Conarosia ovata" = Burmirhynchia moulani, "Conarosia sphenoidea" = Burmirhynchia moulani, "Eurysites transversus" = Burmirhynchia athiensis
"Conarosia ovata" = Burmirhynchia moulani Alméras 1987
"Conarosia sphenoidea" = Burmirhynchia moulani Alméras 1987
"Eurysites transversus" = Burmirhynchia athiensis Rouselle 1965