IGM-3515 Jabal ar Ruhayd, Az Zarqa area, Fuheis Formation: Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian, Jordan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya vignesi Lartet 1877
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia delettrei
Venus reynesi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
Protocardia moabitica
Cardium pauli Coquand 1862
recombined as Cardium (Protocardia) pauli
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
? Rutitrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra columba Lamarck 1819
synonym of Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum
Rhynchostreon mermeti (Coquand 1862)
Exogyra flabellata Goldfuss 1833
recombined as Ceratostreon flabellatum
Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellatum (Goldfuss 1833)
recombined as Ceratostreon flabellatum
Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis (Sharpe 1850)
recombined as Costagyra olisiponensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula cf. ferryi Coquand 1862
recombined as Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
? Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca trigeri
see common names

Geography
Country:Jordan
Coordinates: 32.1° North, 36.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.3° North, 29.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ajlun Formation:Fuheis
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: ?Middle-Late Cenomanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: fossiliferous marls and marly limestones
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Gastropods, echinoids, foraminifera and ostracods reported to be present, but not listed.
Metadata
Database number:66800
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-10-17 00:42:13 Last modified:2006-10-17 03:42:13
Access level:the public Released:2006-10-17 00:42:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19020. M. C. Perrilliat, F. Ahmad, and F. J. Vega. 2006. Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) bivalves from northern Jordan, Middle East. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 23(1):96-106 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]