Where: Syria (35.5° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 35.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Dubertret et al. (1937) assigned the locality to the Pleistocene but Roman (1940) and Bourcart (1941) assigned it to the Pliocene (Piacenzian). Early Pliocene according to Moshkovitz (2012).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: G. F. Elliott. 1960. Brachiopodes tertiaires d'Arabie et de Syrie. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 7e Série 2:152-155 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190875: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.12.2017

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