Where: United Arab Emirates (25.9° N, 56.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 1.9° N, 55.5° E (Wright 2013)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mauddud Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• the Mauddud Formation is in the Wasia Group
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: calcareous shale and carbonate
Primary reference: M. S. M. Ali. 1990. Cenomanian Echinoids from Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie-Abhandlungen 179(1):97-116 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3792: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 10.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Tetragramma variolare Brongniart 1822 sea urchin | |
Holectypus excisus sea urchin
Holectypus portentosus sea urchin | |
Anorthopygus arabicus sea urchin | |
Epiaster dartoni heart urchin
Epiaster blanckenhorni heart urchin | |
Pygurus sp., "cf. Pygurus subproductus" = Pygurus (Pygurus) subproductus
Pygurus sp. Agassiz 1839 sea urchin
"cf. Pygurus subproductus" = Pygurus (Pygurus) subproductus Fourtau 1921 sea urchin originally entered as "Pygurus cf. subproductus"
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Orthopsis miliaris d'Archiac 1835 sea urchin | |
Thylechinus sp. Pomel 1883 sea urchin | |
Emiratia raskhaimahensis Ali 1990 sea urchin | |
Pedinopsis desori sea urchin | |
Trochodiadema libanoticum sea urchin
Trochodiadema sp. sea urchin |