Ras al Khaimah, UAE: Cenomanian, United Arab Emirates

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea quinquecostata (Sowerby 1814)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca aegyptiaca Fourtau 1917
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae
Pterotrigonia scabra (Lamarck 1819)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Glossidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
originally entered as "Notodonax cf. annaeeugeniae"
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya gigantea (Sowerby 1836)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita forgemolli beuquei
Cardita forgemolli delettrei
see common names

Geography
Country:United Arab Emirates
Coordinates: 25.9° North, 56.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.9° North, 55.5° East (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 5
*Epoch:Senonian
Key time interval: Cenomanian
Age range of interval: 100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Khatiyah
Local section:Wadi Kabd al Qa's
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Khatiyah (Shilaif) Formation is within the Wasia Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: calcareous "shale"
Secondary lithology: "carbonate"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3790
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-10 06:50:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
251. M. H. M. Metwally. 1994. Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Bivalves from the Wasia Group, Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie-Abhandlungen 191(2):299-312 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]