ammonites
Corals, Hamam Formation, Tal el Dhahab (Jurassic of Jordan)

Where: Jordan (32.2° N, 35.6° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 30.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hamam Formation, Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; carbonate and siliciclastic

• the dominance of pennular corals with fenestrate septa suggest a comparatively deep environment well below fair weather wave base
• carbonate to siliciclastic rock sequence

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Collected by F. Ahmad

• material has been deposited in the collections of the Institut für Paläontologie der Universität Würzburg

Primary reference: D. K. Pandey, F. Ahmad, and F. T. Fürsich. 2000. Middle Jurassic scleractinian corals from northwestern Jordan. Beringeria 27:3-29 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83641: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 25.08.2008