Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.3° N, 48.4° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° S, 31.2° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Shuqra Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• 23-26 m below top
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
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 2603: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Rhabdoconcha sp." = Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha)
"Rhabdoconcha sp." = Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) snail | |
"Ampullospira sp." = Ampullina (Ampullospira)
"Ampullospira sp." = Ampullina (Ampullospira) Harris 1897 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
Actinostreon solitaria oyster | |
"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, Gryphaea balli
"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster originally entered as "Nannogyra fourtaui"
Gryphaea balli Stefanini 1925 oyster | |
Eligmus humei oyster
Eligmus aualites Stefanini 1925 oyster | |
Brachidontes somalicus mussel | |
Bucardiomya somaliensis Cox 1935 clam | |
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Ceratomyopsis arabica Cox 1935 clam | |
Myoconcha sp. Sowerby 1824 clam | |
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Procyprina hunti clam | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
"Conarosia sp." = Burmirhynchia, Somalirhynchia arabica
"Conarosia sp." = Burmirhynchia Buckman 1917
Somalirhynchia arabica Cooper 1989 | |
Bihenithyris barringtoni Muir-Wood 1935
Bihenithyris weiri Muir-Wood 1935 |