Bed No. 596, Kashm Turab (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (25.0° N, 45.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.0° S, 33.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Micromphylites clydocromphalus zone, D5 Member (Dhruma Formation), Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, nodular, yellow dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Alméras, M. Cougnon, R. Enay and C. Mangold. 2010. Brachiopodes du Jurasique Inférieur et moyen d'Arabie Saoudite centrale. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de Lyon 168:1-247 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141395: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 27.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Dhrumaites sp. Arkell 1952 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Colpotoria nazeri Alméras 1987
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Arapsothyris magna Cooper 1989