Where: Saudi Arabia (26.3° N, 44.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 33.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Solidum ammonoid zone, T3 Member (Tuwaiq Mountain Formation), Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• at the border of T2 and T3 members
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, yellow limestone
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 141502: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 27.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Kutchirhynchia indica d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Thadiqithyris thadiqiensis Nazer 1973 | |
Bihenithyris weiri Muir-Wood 1935
Striithyris somaliensis Muir-Wood 1935 |