Where: Jordan (29.4° N, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 35.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• terrace 1: < 1 m above sea level; about 6500 years old (Friedman 1968)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. A. Al-Rifaiy and O. H. Cherif. 1988. The Fossil Coral Reefs of Al-Aqaba, Jordan. Facies 18(1):219-230 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97661: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.08.2010