Where: Israel (30.7° N, 35.1° E: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 29.0° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: En Yorqe'am Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone
•Deep subtidal based on rich ammonite faunas
•corals, brachiopods, gastropods, bivalves, ammonites, echinoids and ostracodes.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Primary reference: M. A. Wilson, O. Vinn, and T. J. Palmer. 2014. Bivalve borings, bioclaustrations and symbiosis in corals from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of southern Israel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 414:243-245 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165864: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 30.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Aspidiscus cristatus Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
Gastrochaenolites ampullatus Kelly and Bromley 1984 |