Where: Yemen (15.7° N, 43.7° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 27.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)
• Sequanian-Kimmeridgian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: E. Basse. 1930. Contribution a l'etude du Jurassique superieur (facies Corallien) en Ethiopie et en Arabie meridionale [Studies about the Upper Jurassic (Corallian facies) in Ethiopia and southern Arabia]. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 14:105-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94504: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2010, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Natica hemisphaerica" = Globularia hemisphaerica
"Natica hemisphaerica" = Globularia hemisphaerica Roemer 1836 snail | |
Tylostoma sp. Sharpe 1849 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Alectryonia pulligera" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Alectryonia pulligera" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
"Exogyra bruntrutana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Exogyra bruntrutana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
"Modiola subangustissima" = Mytilus (Modiola) subangustissimus Dacque 1905 mussel | |
"Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei
"Pholadomya protei" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei Brongniart 1821 clam | |
"Isocardia striata" = Ceratomyopsis striata
"Isocardia striata" = Ceratomyopsis striata d'Orbigny 1822 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Somalirhynchia africana2 Weir 1925 | |
"Terebratula subsella" = Xestosina subsella
"Terebratula subsella" = Xestosina subsella Leymerie 1846 |