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Ibrahim M. J. Mohialdeen

Slaw Kak Rizgar,

I think the both are ammonite impressions!

all the best

Ibrahim

Syed Abbas Jafar

Rzger:

Yes, both the images are of Ammonites but the poor preservation would not permit reliable age diagnostic species identification.

Best

Syed

Rzger A. Abdula

Thank you for both of you Dr Mohialdeen and Jafar for your effort.

As far as I know they are belong to Reineckeidae family and Ammonoides group but I want the genus and species names.

Regards

Dear Dan O’Dea,

Thank you for your consideration. They were collected from Iraqi Kurdistan, Northern Iraq and they belong to Upper Jurassic Naokelekan Formation. I have more images and I share the attached image that shows the algae matt surrounding the representatives of the Middle Oxfordian genus Trimarginites. Do you agree with me?