Bed No. 99, Kashm Abu al Jiwar (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (21.9° N, 45.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.6° S, 32.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Thambites planus ammonoid zone, D3 Member (Dhruma Formation), Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• at 10m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous 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 141558: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 29.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Burmirhynchia moulani Alméras 1987
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Tubithyris cf. jurayfahiensis Alméras et al. 2010
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Thambites planus Arkell 1952 ammonite