Jebel Rawdah, section 1, bed 5: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Oman

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Cimomia aff. sowerbyana (d'Orbigny 1840)
see common names

Geography
Country:Oman
Coordinates: 24.9° North, 55.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.6° North, 46.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Simsima
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Where it is precisely dated, Brahmaites (Anabrahmaites) vishu occurs in the Upper Maastrichtian fresvillensis zone. Specimens from scree "almost certainly derived from the top of bed 4" (given as "bed 3 or 4" by Kennedy).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,nodular,shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Lithology description: Nodular bioturbated orbitoid-rich bioclastic packstone
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:175478
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
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Access level:the public Released:2015-12-12 20:41:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
57377. N. J. Morris. 1995. Maastrichtian nautiloids from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 51:251-255 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]