Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.3° N, 48.4° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 31.1° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Billum Member (Naifa Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 157.3 Ma)
• top bed of limestone forming pavement at base of cliff
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: carbonate
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 2618: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 12.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Streblites plicodiscus Waagen 1875 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Parainoceramus sp." = Kolymia
|