Wadi Arus IV (Jurassic to of Yemen)

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

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Streblites plicodiscus Waagen 1875 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Kolymiidae
"Parainoceramus sp." = Kolymia
"Parainoceramus sp." = Kolymia clam
few