Where: Israel (31.4° N, 35.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° S, 35.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Arqov Formation, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.0 - 252.3 Ma)

• Marine sediments of the Arqov Formation (165m) are overlain by a fluviatile to continental succession of the Shezaf Formation (90m), which may represent a sandy member of the upper Arqov Formation. Ostracodes were found in samples of the Arqov Formation between 2486 and 2645m, while the Shezaf Formation is barren of ostracodes.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Honigstein, A. Rosenfeld, and B. Derin. 2005. Late Permian ostracodes: new subsurface material from Israel. Micropaleontology 51(5):405-422 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 109723: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.05.2011

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