Where: Saudi Arabia (26.0° N, 49.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 46.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Dam Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Late Early Miocene.
•The pollen level (sample no 256/1) has not been correlated with main fossil localities, although not stratigraphically distant.
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•Formation is Burdigalian in age, see Chan et al. 2017 and Ali et al. 2021 for despotional history of Dam Formation.
•There are 3 Formations in the succession - the Hadruck, Dam and Hofuf (Hofuf overlies the others). Type section of the Dam Formation is Jabal al Lidam. The depth of the formation at Al-Sarrar varies, but is around 30m. Near the Arabian Gulf the Formation is entirely marine, with more continental facies inland. The Al-Sarrar area is an area of 'continental sediments interbedded with the marine series'.
•Fauna has been collected from a number of localities which have been entered individually.
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: microfossils
Primary reference: H. Thomas, S. Sen, M. Khan, B. Battail, and G. Ligabue. 1982. The Lower Miocene Fauna of Al-Sarrar (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia). Atlal 5(3a):109-136 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 47096: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 08.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
cf. Vitaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 | |
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Artemisia sp., "Compositae indet." = Asteraceae
"Compositae indet." = Asteraceae Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy Compositae tubuliflorae 8%, C. liguliflorae 1%.
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"cf. Umbelliferae indet." = Apiaceae
"cf. Umbelliferae indet." = Apiaceae Lindley 1836 | |
"Gramineae indet." = Poaceae
"Gramineae indet." = Poaceae Barnhart 1895 true grass | |
Cyperaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 sedge | |
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