Walid Sadeddin
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Yarmouk University, P.O. Box 566 Irbid 21 1-63, Jordan
Mahmoud Al-Tamimi
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Yarmouk University, P.O. Box 566 Irbid 21 1-63, Jordan
ABSTRACT
Two new genera: Septapedatus and Octopedatus assigned to the family Priscpedatidae Frizzle and Exline, 1955, picked from the nodular limestone beds of the Shueib Formation (Late Cenomanian - Early Turonian) in Salhoub area, N Jordan. Related to these 2 new genera, 2 new species, Septapedatus palestiniansis and Octopedatus densusmaculis are illustrated and described in this study. The present material is recovered from the same locality and include 40 species, most of them are new.
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Walid Sadeddin and Mahmoud Al-Tamimi, 2006. Two New Holothurian Sclerite Genera from the Late Cretaceous of Jordan. Journal of Applied Sciences, 6: 2426-2431.
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2006.2426.2431
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2006.2426.2431
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2006.2426.2431
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2006.2426.2431
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- Frizzle, D. and H. Exline, 1957. Revision of the family Synaptitidae, fossil holothurian sclerites. (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea). Bol. Soc. Geol. Peru, 32: 97-119.
Direct Link - Kozur, H. and W. Sadeddin, 1990. Holothurian sclerites from the middle jrassic of Wadi Huni, Northeast Jordan. Micropaleontology, 4: 353-366.
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