Gebel Uzbah, Marly limestone (Locality D) (Pleistocene to of Yemen)

Where: Yemen (16.8° N, 42.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 41.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Kamaran Member (Abbas Formation), Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• basal cast besds of the marly limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. L. Cox. 1931. The geology of the Farsan Islands, Oizan and Kamaran Island, Red Sea. Part 2.- Molluscan palaeontology. Geological Magazine 68:1-18 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55371: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 12.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pandorida - Clavagellidae
Brechites cf. vaginifer watering pot shell