Zilfi, S293 (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (26.3° N, 44.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 33.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tuwaiq Mountain Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 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 99080: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
"Arabatia concava n. gen. n. sp." = Arabatia bihinensis
"Arabatia concava n. gen. n. sp." = Arabatia bihinensis Weir 1929
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"? Pleuraloma circulare n. sp." = Plectoidothyris circulare, ? Kutchithyris "sp. 2"
"? Pleuraloma circulare n. sp." = Plectoidothyris circulare Cooper 1989
? Kutchithyris "sp. 2" Buckman 1917