Also known as Harrana fauna
Where: Jordan (31.6° N, 36.5° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 30.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Muwaddar Chalk Marl Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Most vertebrate fossils from lowest stratigraphic zone buried beneath 25 meters of sediments. Menuites fresvillensis is a good index taxon for upper Maastrichtian strata Pachydiscus (P.) dossantosi links Jordan with the (upper) lower to lower upper Maastrichtian in the United Arab Emirates/Oman border area and with more poorly constrained Maastrichtian levels in Brazil and Nigeria. The record of Menuites fresvillensis and sphenodiscids suggests correlation of the MCMF with the Emael and Nekum members of the Maastrichtian Formation (ca 66.5–66.1 Ma), plus the upper part of the coeval Kunrade Formation, in the type area of the Maastrichtian Stage (southeast Netherlands, northeast Belgium). However, associated ‘tegulated’ inoceramids from the MCMF are assignable to the group of Tenuipteria argentea (Conrad, 1858), which corroborates the latest Maastrichtian age of that unit and allows correlation with North America and Europe.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Eternal River Museum of Natural History (ERMNH) at Amman
Primary reference: H. F. Kaddumi. 2006. A new genus and species of gigantic marine turtles (Chelonioidea: Cheloniidae) from the Maastrichtian of the Harrana Fauna-Jordan. PalArch Vertebrate Paleontology 2(1):1-14 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 170239: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.06.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Selachia indet. "enigmatic tiny 2 mm selachian teeth with three lateral cusplets and broad massive root"
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Cephalopoda | |
Libycoceras acutodorsatus Noetling 1897 ammonite | |
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) dossantosi Maury 1930 ammonite
Menuites fresvillensis Seunes 1890 ammonite | |
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Bivalvia | |
Tenuipteria ex gr. argentea Conrad 1858 clam | |
Actinopteri | |
Ichthyodectidae indet. Crook 1892 | |
Saurodon sp. Hays 1829
Saurocephalus sp. Harlan 1824 | |
Enchodus elegans Dartevelle and Casier 1949 | |
Stratodus apicalis Cope 1872
Dercetis sp. Agassiz 1834 | |
Eurypholidae indet. Goody 1969 | |
Reptilia | |
Mosasauridae indet., "Mosasaurus hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii, "Liodon anceps" = Leiodon anceps, Clidastes sp., Tylosaurus indet., Platecarpus sp.
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur :new species and genus of small durophagous mosasaurs similar to carinodens"
"Mosasaurus hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii Mantell 1829 mosasaur
"Liodon anceps" = Leiodon anceps Owen 1841 mosasaur
Clidastes sp. Cope 1868 mosasaur
Tylosaurus indet. Marsh 1872 mosasaur | |
Gigantatypus salahi n. gen. n. sp.
Gigantatypus salahi n. gen. n. sp. Kaddumi 2006 sea turtle | |
Polycotylidae indet. Williston 1908 plesiosaur | |
Pterosauria indet. pterosaur | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myliobatoidea indet. stingray | |
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark | |
Cretolamna biauriculate mackerel shark |