Timna area, upper Nimra Member (Cambrian of Israel)

Where: Israel (29.8° N, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 35.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nimra Member (Timna Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

• More or less equivalent to the Numayri Member in Jordan.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: O. Elicki. 2011. First skeletal microfauna from the Cambrian Series 3 of the Jordan Rift Valley (Middle East). Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists (42)153-173 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 139935: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 23.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920