Al-Aqaba, Terrace 5, D, microfacies A (Pleistocene of Jordan)
Where: Jordan (29.3° N, 34.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° N, 34.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• 238 000 years
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; packstone
• abundant fragments of calcareous algae, corals, mollucs, echinoids and bryozoans. It also yields abundant Foramiminifera, rare planktonics and stromatolitic structures. Some glauconite grains are also present and the siliciclastic fragments are angular and rather badly sorted. This microfacies suggests a normal lagoonal environment.
• a sandy, detrital biosparite (packstone)
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: I. A. Al-Rifaiy and O. H. Cherif. 1988. The Fossil Coral Reefs of Al-Aqaba, Jordan. Facies 18(1):219-230 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82751: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 01.08.2008
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Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
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Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
| Florideophyceae | |
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897 | |
| Globothalamea | |
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Eponides sp. Montfort 1808
Discorbis sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
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Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
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Textularia sp. Defrance 1824 | |
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Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
| Tubothalamea | |
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Triloculina trigonula Lamarck 1804 | |
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Amphisorus sp. Ehrenberg 1839 | |