Where: Qatar (25.5° N, 50.8° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 42.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Umm Bab Member (Dammam Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Upper Dammam, Umm Bab n. 22. Subsequently, the Rus and Dammam formations were assigned to the Middle Eocene Lutetian stage based on the pervence of latest Paleocene/Early Eocene planktonic foraminifera in the underlying Umm Er Radhuma Formation (Hasson, 1985; El-Nakhal, 1988). On the basis of the recorded fauna, the age of the Dammam Formation in Qatar was revised to Middle/Late Lutetian age. Hewaidy and Al Saad (1993) assigned the Midra and Dukhan members a Middle Lutetian age and Umm Bab and Abaruq members a Late Lutetian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Cavelier in 1969-1970; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: J. Roman. 1976. Echinides éocènes et miocènes du Qatar (Golfe Persique). Annales de Paléontologie (Invertébrés) 62:49-85 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209104: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.04.2020

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