Where: Israel (30.2° N, 34.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 28.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Parnes believed the strata were of early Coniacian age. Later work by Lewy (1975, p. 25, 30) cast doubt on this assignment, according to Cobban & Hook, 1980.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Survey of Israel, Hebrew University

Primary reference: A. Parnes. 1964. Coniacian ammonites from the Negev (Southern Israel). Geological Survey of Israel, Bulletin (39)1-41 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69827: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 08.03.2007

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