Where: Israel (31.9° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 32.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ramla Member (Lakhish Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• Based on planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils, Drooger (1986) ascribed the Ramla deposits to zone P21 (the upper half of the Pr. opima opima Zone).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: cast
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1934. On the occurence of the marine Oligocene in Palestine. Geological Magazine 71:337-355 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99564: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.11.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
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Cephalopoda | |
"Nautilus blakei" = Cimomia blakei
"Nautilus blakei" = Cimomia blakei Avnimelech 1947 nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
Globularia sp. Swainson 1840 snail | |
"Xancus episomus" = Turbinella episoma
"Xancus episomus" = Turbinella episoma Michelotti 1861 snail | |
"Neoathleta sp." = Athleta (Neoathleta)
"Neoathleta sp." = Athleta (Neoathleta) Bellardi 1890 volute | |
Ficus condita Brongniart 1823 fig shell | |
"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten arcuatus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus, "Chlamys (Aequipecten) deleta" = Aequipecten, "Chlamys (Aequipecten) quinquepartita" = Aequipecten, "Chlamys (Aequipecten) cf. perrugosa" = Aequipecten, "Chlamys (Aequipecten) judaica n. sp." = Aequipecten, Spondylus sp.
"Pecten arcuatus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) quinquepartita" = Aequipecten scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) cf. perrugosa" = Aequipecten scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) judaica n. sp." = Aequipecten scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
"Ostrea gigantica" = Gigantostrea gigantica
"Ostrea gigantica" = Gigantostrea gigantica Solander in Brander 1766 oyster | |
Ostrea flabellulaeformis oyster | |
Modiolus incomptus mussel | |
Lucina rollei clam | |
Meretrix ovisimilis venus clam
Meretrix sp. Lamarck 1799 venus clam |