Hamakhtesh Hagadol, Negev (Jurassic of Israel)

Also known as Reef 2749

Where: Israel (30.9° N, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 29.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: athleta ammonoid zone, Matmor Formation, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Originally assigned to the Argovian (= upper Oxfordian). Now considered of Callovian age (M. Wilson, pers. comm. 2009).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• 58 m of limestones and marl with abundant corals and stromatoporoids

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. G. S. Hudson. 1958. Actostroma gen. nov., a Jurassic stromatoporoid from Maktesh Hathira, Israel. Palaeontology 1(2):87-98 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91903: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.10.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Calcarea
  -
Calcarea indet.2 Bowerbank 1864 calcareous sponge
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Shuqraia sp. Hudson 1954 demosponge
Promillepora pervinquieri Dehorne 1920 demosponge
Dehornella crustans1 Hudson 1960 demosponge
Dehornella cf. harrarensis1 Wells 1943 demosponge
 Agelasida - Actinostromariidae
Actostroma kuehni n. sp. demosponge
Actostroma damesini n. gen. n. sp. Hudson 1958 demosponge
Actostroma nasri n. sp. Hudson 1958 demosponge
Stromatoporoidea
  -
Stromatoporina sp. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena sp.2 Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp.2 Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana2
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana2 Sowerby 1822 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Thecideida - Thecidellinidae
"Moorelina sp." = Moorellina2
"Moorelina sp." = Moorellina2
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Sabellidae
Glomerula gordialis2
encrusting
 Serpulimorpha -
Mucroserpula sp.2
encrusting
 Life -
Gastrochaenolites torpedo2 Kelly and Bromley 1984