Jebel Dhanna site JD5: Late Miocene, United Arab Emirates
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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de Lapparent de Broin and van Dijk 1999 | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Mauremys sp.
Gray 1870
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de Lapparent de Broin and van Dijk 1999 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Arab Emirates | State/province: | Abu Dhabi |
| Coordinates: | 24.2° North, 52.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.5° North, 51.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Late Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63 - 5.333 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Baynunah |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",planar lamination,ferruginous,red poorly lithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | carbonaceous conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: poorly consolidated sands, horizontally bedded, mainly reddish-brown in color with both sets and cosets present...thin laterallly discontinuous conglomerate, (the petrology of the conglomerate clasts is similar to that of the sands that are mature and polycyclic with sub-angular quartz, feldspars, tourmaline and micas rarely cemented with carbonate). | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Collection size: | 6 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Lapparent de Broin and Van Dijk credit Whybrow with first description of site, but it's not name in that reference | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 28263 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-02-03 14:47:20 | Last modified: | 2003-07-14 17:21:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-03 14:47:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7915. | P. J. Whybrow. 1989. New Stratotype: the Baynunah Formation (Late Miocene), United Arab Emirates: Lithology and palaeontology. Newsletter on Stratigraphy 21(1):1-9 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |
Secondary references:
| 7702 | 5% 920 | F. de Lapparent de Broin and P. P. van Dijk. 1999. Chelonia from the Late Miocene Baynunah Formation, Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: palaeogeographic implications . In P. J. Whybrow, A. Hill (eds.), Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia 136-162 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Uhen] |