The occurrence of a shallow-water Ammobaculoides assemblage in the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Dhruma Formation of Central Saudi Arabia

Michael A. Kaminski*, Muhammad Hammad Malik, Eiichi Setoyama

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Abstract

We report the occurrence of an Ammobaculoides-dominated assemblage in the lowermost member of the Middle Jurassic Dhruma Formation exposed west of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The new species Ammobaculoides dhrumaensis n.sp. is described from the green shale of the D1 unit (also known as the Balum Member) of the Dhruma Formation, which has been assigned an early Bajocian age based on ammonites. Our new finding constitutes the oldest reported worldwide occurrence of the agglutinated foraminiferal genus Ammobaculoides Plummer, 1932.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)149-152
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Micropalaeontology
Volume37
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Jan 2018

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