Bed 9, 5 km south of Jabal Al Abd: Siegen - Emsian, Saudi Arabia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
? Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Hysterolites ex gr. hystericus
von Schlotheim
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Anathyris sp.
Gastropoda - Cycloneritida - Neritopsidae
Turbonitella ex gr. sigana Dahmer 1925
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma ex gr. lamellosa
Goldfuss
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
? Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
see common names

Geography
Country:Saudi Arabia
Coordinates: 29.8° North, 39.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.0° South, 88.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Early Devonian
Stage: Pragian - Emsian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 1 - Devonian 2
Key time interval: Siegen - Emsian
Age range of interval: 410.8 - 393.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hammamiyat
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: See Bahafzallah et al. 1981. Stratigraphy & facies of the Devonian Jauf Formation, Saudi Arabia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatschefte 1981(1):1-18
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:69212
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-21 14:12:16 Last modified:2007-02-21 16:12:17
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-21 14:12:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15579. A. J. Boucot, D. M. Rohr, and R.B. Blodgett. 1988. A marine invertebrate faunule from the Tawil Sandstone (basal Devonian) of Saudi Arabia and its biogeographic-paleogeographic consequences. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir 44:361-372 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]