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
•lower storm bed, at base of fm.
• 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 2597: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Laevaptychus sp. Trauth 1927 ammonoid aptychus | |
Gastropoda | |
Proconulus arabiensis Newton 1908 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Indogrammatodon egertonianus Stoliczka 1865 clam | |
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Posidonia somaliensis Cox 1935 oyster | |
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"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster originally entered as "Nannogyra fourtaui"
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Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Somalirhynchia sp., Somalirhynchia smelliei, cf. Somalirhynchia arabica, cf. Somalirhynchia africana
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Bihenithyris weiri Muir-Wood 1935 | |
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