Where: Israel (30.9° N, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 29.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ziyya Member (Zohar Formation), Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• unit is 1.60 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Reiner. 1968. Callovian gastropods from Hamakhtesh Hagadol (southern Israel). Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 17:171-198 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99129: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.10.2010

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