ammonites
Al Ma'abir III-4 (Jurassic of Yemen)

Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.3° N, 48.6° E: paleocoordinates 12.1° S, 31.2° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Madbi Formation, Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• middle storm bed, 49 m below top

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

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 2557: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 08.07.1999