Mintaq Salt Dome-1 (Cretaceous of Yemen)
Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.6° N, 48.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° S, 32.9° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Orbitolina Limestone Member (Qishn Formation), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)
• 73 m above base
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
• lithology described as a limestone
Primary reference: M. K. Howarth and N. J. Morris. 1998. The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology) 54(1):1-32 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2619: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 12.07.1999
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Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea | |
Leptosalenia somaliensis sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya valangiensis Pictet and Campiche 1864 clam | |
Amphidonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
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