Where: Yemen (14.5° N, 48.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 38.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kaninah Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized, original phosphate, replaced with silica
Primary reference: M. L. As-Saruri, P. J. Whybrow, and M. E. Collinson. 1999. Geology, fruits, seeds, and vertebrates (?Sirenia) from the Kaninah Formation (Middle Eocene), Republic of Yemen. Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia 443-453 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47928: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.03.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
? Nymphaeaceae indet. Salisbury 1805 water lily | |
Araceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 | |
Anonaspermum sp. Ball 1931 custard apple | |
Reptilia | |
Eusuchia indet. crocodilian An isolated tooth crown; a fragmentary anterior caudal vertebra; two partial left mid-dorsal or caudal dorsal ribs; a partial left ilium; a partial right paramedian dorsal osteoderm; a gastral (ventral) osteoderm
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Mammalia | |
? Sirenia indet. sirenian | |
Bivalvia | |
? Caestocorbula sp. Vincent 1910 clam | |
? Raetomya sp. Newton 1919 clam |