Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.3° N, 48.4° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° S, 31.2° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Shuqra Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• 27-30 m below top
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
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 2604: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Ampullospira sp." = Ampullina (Ampullospira)
"Ampullospira sp." = Ampullina (Ampullospira) Harris 1897 snail | |
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Bivalvia | |
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
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"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, Gryphaea balli
"Nanogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster originally entered as "Nannogyra fourtaui"
Gryphaea balli Stefanini 1925 oyster | |
Eligmus humei oyster
Eligmus aualites Stefanini 1925 oyster | |
Brachidontes somalicus mussel | |
"Bucardiomya aubreyi" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya), Bucardiomya somaliensis
"Bucardiomya aubreyi" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) clam
Bucardiomya somaliensis Cox 1935 clam | |
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Ceratomyopsis somaliensis Weir 1929 clam | |
Procyprina hunti clam | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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"cf. Arapsopleurum arabicum" = Arabatia arabica, "Arabicella ovalis" = Arabatia bihinensis, "Arapsopleurum rotundum" = Arabatia rotunda, "Arabicella arabis" = Arabatia, ? Stiphrothyris sp.
"cf. Arapsopleurum arabicum" = Arabatia arabica Cooper 1989 originally entered as "Arapsopleurum cf. arabicum"
"Arabicella ovalis" = Arabatia bihinensis Weir 1929
"Arapsopleurum rotundum" = Arabatia rotunda Cooper 1989
"Arabicella arabis" = Arabatia | |
"Arapsothyris angustata" = Arapsothyris magna
"Arapsothyris angustata" = Arapsothyris magna Cooper 1989 |