Khashm Hisan, S1496 (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (25.2° N, 45.7° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 33.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 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 98770: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Arapsothyris magna Cooper 1989
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
"Gibbirhynchia sphaerica n. sp." = Globirhynchia sphaerica
"Gibbirhynchia sphaerica n. sp." = Globirhynchia sphaerica Cooper 1989
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Globirhynchia subtriangulata" = Daghanirhynchia subversabilis Weir 1925