Mintaq Salt Dome-8 (Cretaceous of Yemen)
Where: Wadi Hajar, Yemen (14.6° N, 48.0° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 31.8° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mintaq Member (Hajar Formation), Berriasian (145.5 - 140.2 Ma)
• 99.55 m above base
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
• lithology described as fine-grained limestone nodules
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 2626: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 12.07.1999