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 3.40 m thick
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, argillaceous limestone and lithified shale
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 99131: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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Retusa plicifer snail | |
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Globularia cf. hulliana snail | |
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? Pietteia cf. hesitans snail | |
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Procerithium cf. deserti Douvillé 1916 snail | |