Where: Saudi Arabia (25.2° N, 45.7° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 5.2° S, 45.1° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dhruma Formation, Middle Bathonian (168.2 - 165.3 Ma)
• Tulites fauna, between 13.2 and 17.3 m below capping layer in low escarpment (15.2 to 19.3 m below the Micromphalites fauna)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified 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 184544: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2017
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Tulites tuwaiqensis Arkell 1952 ammonite |