Where: Southern Coastal Plain, Israel (31.6° N, 34.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 29.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Talme Yafe Formation, Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 100.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, argillaceous, carbonaceous mudstone
•In the Gevar'am 2 well, at 1500 m the Gevar'am Fm. is overlain by 700 meters of light to medium gray marine mudstone called the Talme Yafe Formation. The nature of the contact between these two formations is still an open question.
•The rapid vertical change from a carbonaceous shale to a light gray marlstone sequence may represent an unconformable relationship or only a rapid change in the depositional environment.
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin
Collection methods: chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric, sieve
Primary reference: G. J. Brenner. 1974. Palynostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceus Gevar'am and Talme Yafe Formations in the Gevar'am well (Southern Coastal Plain, Israel). Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Israel 59:1-27 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144156: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 01.05.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida | |
Classopollis torosus Burger 1965 | |
Angiospermae | |
Monosulcites "sp. 1" Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
Converrucosisporites | |
Converrucosisporites sp. PotoniƩ and Kremp 1954 | |
Dinophyceae | |
Cyclonephelium sp. Deflandre and Cookson 1955 |