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
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 | |
Gibbirhynchia gibbosa Buckman 1917 | |
Bivalvia | |
Coelopis sp. Munier-Chalmas 1887 clam | |
Cardinia sp. Agassiz 1841 clam |