Mintaq Salt Dome-3 (Cretaceous of Yemen)

Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.6° N, 48.0° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° S, 31.9° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mintaq Member (Hajar Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• 150 m above base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous shale and limestone

• lithology described as limestones and marls

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2621: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 12.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
? Protacanthodiscus sp.
? Protacanthodiscus sp. ammonite
originally entered as "?Protacanthodiscus sp."
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Neocosmoceras sp., ? Neocomites sp.
? Neocomites sp. Uhlig 1905 ammonite
originally entered as "?Neocomites sp."