3 miles north of Rifaa (Eocene of Bahrain)

Where: Bahrain (26.2° N, 50.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 9.4° N, 48.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dammam Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Stratigraphic position uncertain but likely from the top of the Al Buhayr or Jabel Hissar Carbonate, based on map in Doornkamp et al. (1980).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified carbonate

• Lithology of Al Buhayr Carbonate Formation is laminated, rusty, yellow orange argillaceous dolosiltite according to Doornkamp et al. (1980).

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.E. Pilgrim

• Repository: Geological Survey of India

Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1936. Fossil Mollusca from southern Persia (Iran) and Bahrein Island. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 22(2):1-67 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209810: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina metableta
Lucina metableta Cossmann 1901 clam