Where: Saudi Arabia (25.5° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 33.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ermoceras ammonoid zone, Lower Member (Dhruma Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• 86-88 m below Microphalites Clay
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1989. Jurassic brachiopods of Saudi Arabia. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 65:1-213 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136098: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 17.11.2012, edited by Adam Kocsis
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Eudesia (Sphriganaria) magharensis Farag 1960 |