Where: Saudi Arabia (25.0° N, 45.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 33.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tuwaiq Mountain Formation, Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• Erymnoceras fauna, 22.4 m above the base of the Tuwaiq Mountain limestone
• 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 184549: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2017
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Erymnoceras cf. philbyi Arkell 1952 ammonite
Pachyceras cf. schloenbachi Roman 1930 ammonite |