Makhtesh Ramon (Inmar Formation) (Jurassic of Israel)

Where: Israel (30.6° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 29.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inmar Formation, Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, silty limestone and unlithified claystone

• "deltaic"
• interbed of silty limestone in kaolionitic clay beds and kaolinitic clays

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by G. Weinburger

• Repository: Paleontological Division of the Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem

Primary reference: A. Parnes. 1980. Lower Jurassic (Liassic) Invertebrates from Makhtesh Ramon (Negev, Southern Israel). Israel Journal of Earth-Sciences 29:107-113 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159698: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Gibbirhynchia gibbosa Buckman 1917
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Coelopis sp. Munier-Chalmas 1887 clam
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia sp. Agassiz 1841 clam