Dukhan locality, Persian Gulf (Jurassic of Qatar)

Where: Qatar (25.4° N, 50.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 38.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Jurassic (163.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• Subsurface Upper Jurassic

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. F. Elliott. 1957. New Calcareous Algae from the Arabian Peninsula. Micropaleontology 3(3):227-230 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143466: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 23.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae