Beersheba: Late/Upper Miocene, Israel

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten benedictus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim 1813)
recombined as Crassostrea gryphoides
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca noe
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium (Trachycardium) multicostatum (Brocchi 1814)
recombined as Europicardium multicostatum
Cardium cf. erinaceum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Antigona miocenica
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900
see common names

Geography
Country:Israel
Coordinates: 31.3° North, 34.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.8° North, 34.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: friable to hard, porous yellow limestone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:99605
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-11-16 20:56:25 Last modified:2010-11-16 03:56:25
Access level:the public Released:2010-11-16 20:56:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34255. G. S. Blake. 1935. On the occurrence of marine Miocene in Palestine. Geological Magazine 72:140-142 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]