Locality 6, Juraifa area (Aramco S-1501) (Jurassic of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (25.5° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 33.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dhruma Formation, Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Thambites fauna, 36.4 to 43.8 m below the Micromphalites clay

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, red limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SM

Primary reference: W. J. Arkell. 1952. Jurassic ammonites from Jebel Tuwaiq, central Arabia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 236:241-313 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184528: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Thambites planus n. sp. Arkell 1952 ammonite