Horizon 2, Woodbearing Member A, Wadi Raman, Negev Desert (Triassic to of Israel)

Where: Israel (30.6° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.7° S, 34.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Olenekian to Olenekian (251.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Member 'A', divided into 4 horizons; horizon 2 3.2 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified sandstone

• continental sedimentation, littoral sedimentation with single, unimportant transgressions over the coast
• reddish or brick-red sandstone interbedded with gray shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: F. Brotzen. 1956. Stratigraphical studies on the Triassic vertebrate fossils from Wadi Raman, Israel. Arkiv foer Mineralogi och Geologi 2(9):191-217 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63904: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 25.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Cetroxylum sp.
Cetroxylum sp.
could also be related group
Reptilia
 Placodontia - Placodontidae
"Placodus" sp.
"Placodus" sp. Agassiz 1833 placodont
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797