Ras al Khaimah, UAE (Cretaceous of the United Arab Emirates)

Where: United Arab Emirates (25.9° N, 56.1° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 45.5° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mauddud Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• the Mauddud Formation is in the Wasia Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous shale and carbonate

Primary reference: M. S. M. Ali. 1990. Cenomanian Echinoids from Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie-Abhandlungen 179(1):97-116 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3792: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 10.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Hemicidaroida -
 Euechinoidea - Pedinopsidae
 Euechinoidea - Orthopsidae
Orthopsis miliaris d'Archiac 1835 sea urchin
 Irregularia - Clypeidae
Pygurus sp., "cf. Pygurus subproductus" = Pygurus (Pygurus) subproductus
Pygurus sp. Agassiz 1839 sea urchin
"cf. Pygurus subproductus" = Pygurus (Pygurus) subproductus Fourtau 1921 sea urchin
originally entered as "Pygurus cf. subproductus"
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Epiaster dartoni heart urchin
 Holectypoida - Anorthopygidae
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Tetragramma variolare Brongniart 1822 sea urchin
 Calycina - Emiratiidae
Emiratia raskhaimahensis Ali 1990 sea urchin
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Thylechinus sp. Pomel 1883 sea urchin