Jebel Billum IV-15: Callovian, Yemen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Eligmidae
Eligmus humei
3 specimens
Eligmus aualites (Stefanini 1925)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya sp. Sandberger 1864
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya aubreyi
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Rhabdoconcha sp.
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha)
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
Local section:Jebel Billum
Stratigraphy comments: loose, lower part (fossils collected as float?)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:2606
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-09 12:56:38 Last modified:1999-07-12 07:32:04
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:16
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]