Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.3° N, 48.4° E: paleocoordinates 11.8° S, 31.0° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Madbi Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• Jebel Billum IV section
•32-42 m above base
• group of beds-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 2596: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Colpomya sp. Ulrich 1893 clam | |
Posidonia somaliensis Cox 1935 oyster | |
Deltoideum delta Smith 1817 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Bihenithyris sp. Muir-Wood 1935
Avonothyris sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Somalirhynchia sp. Weir 1925 |