Wadi El-Mujeb (Cretaceous of Jordan)

Where: Jordan (31.5° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.9° N, 31.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, brown chert

• Samples of the coral Stylopsammia judaica were found in a 5 to 10 cm thick bed of dark brown chert situated about 35 m below the top of the sucession on the Northern Flank of Wadi El-Mujeb. This bed belongs to a thick silicified limestone unit...

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMF

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: T. Al-Harithi and R. Birenheide. 1993. A new record of the scleractinian coral Stylopsammia judaica from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of the Judean Desert. Senckenbergiana lethaea 73(2):269-276 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75613: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 22.10.2007

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
"Stylopsammia judaica" = Cladangia
"Stylopsammia judaica" = Cladangia stony coral