Beneckeia beds, Member B, Wadi Raman, Negev Desert: Anisian, Israel

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Tanystropheidae
Tanystropheus sp. von Meyer 1852
Reptilia - Nothosauria
Nothosauria sp. Baur 1889
Reptilia - Placodontia
Psephosaurus mosis n. sp. Brotzen 1956
replaced by Psephosauriscus mosis
Stegocephalia
Stegocephalia sp. (Cope 1868)
spelled with current rank as Stegocephali
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Beneckeia informal sp.1 von Mojsisovics 1882
abundant category
Beneckeia informal sp.2 von Mojsisovics 1882
abundant category
Beneckeia informal sp.3 von Mojsisovics 1882
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ramonalinidae
Myalina beneckei Brotzen 1956
abundant category
recombined as Ramonalina beneckei
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina spp.
Myalina tommasii Salomon 1895
var. obtusa
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria sp. Bronn 1834
see common names

Geography
Country:Israel
Coordinates: 30.6° North, 34.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.1° South, 34.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Anisian
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Wadi Raman Local bed:B
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: section of 28-meter thick beds grouped together as member 'B', divided in 4 horizons
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: shales and limy layers
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Holotype deposited at the Museum of Nat. Hist. Stockholm
Metadata
Database number:63924
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2006-08-25 05:32:21 Last modified:2013-08-01 10:33:36
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-25 05:32:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18339.1% 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]