Jebel Billum IV-10: Callovian, Yemen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea - Millericrinida - Millericrinidae
? Angulocrinus sp. Rollier 1911
1 specimen
originally entered as "?Angulocrinus sp."
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
Acrosalenia somealiensis
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
? Pietteia sp. Cossmann 1904
1 specimen
originally entered as "?Pietteia sp."
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
? Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930
1 specimen
originally entered as "?Palaeonucula sp."
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya sp. Agassiz 1843
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
cf. Ceratomya pittieri (de Loriol 1883)
1 specimen
originally entered as "Ceratomya cf. pittieri"
Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Ceratomyopsis somaliensis (Weir 1929)
5 specimens
Tellurimya sp. n. sp. Cox 1964
1 specimen
"?sp. nov." - originally entered as "Tellurimya ?sp. nov."
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Procyprina hunti
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Corbiculidae
? Eocallista krenkeli Cox 1935
5 specimens
originally entered as "?Eocallista krenkeli"
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes somalicus
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
? Gryphaea balli (Stefanini 1925)
8 specimens
originally entered as "?Gryphaea balli"
Nanogyra fourtaui (Stefanini 1925)
5 specimens
synonym of Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
originally entered as "Nannogyra fourtaui"
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Arctostrea eruca
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Eligmidae
Eligmus sp. Eudes-Deslongchampes 1856
2 specimens
Eligmus aualites (Stefanini 1925)
50 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon solitaria
11 specimens
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Bihenithyris sp. Muir-Wood 1935
5 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
cf. Somalirhynchia arabica Cooper 1989
16 specimens
originally entered as "Somalirhynchia cf.. arabica"
see common names

Geography
Country:Yemen State/province:Wadi Hajar
Coordinates: 14.3° North, 48.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.7° South, 31.2° East
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Epoch:Dogger
Key time interval:Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shuqra Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 21-23 m below top (0-2 m above Nautiloid Bed)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: lithology described as limestone
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:2601
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-09 11:40:16 Last modified:2017-07-27 17:57:30
Access level:database members Released:2001-07-09 11:40:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

74. M. K. Howarth and N. J. Morris. 1998. The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology) 54(1):1-32 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]