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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Thambites planus n. sp.
Thambites planus n. sp. Arkell 1952 ammonite |