Al Ayn Section (5), BC767 (Triassic of Oman)

Where: Oman (23.2° N, 57.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 43.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Halobia Limestone Member (Zulla Formation), Lacian (221.5 - 215.6 Ma)

• early Norian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified, green shale

• Calcarentie, calcilutite, green shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: I. Blechschmidt, P. Dumitrica, A. Matter, L. Krystyn, and T. Peters. 2004. Stratigraphic architecture of the northern Oman continental margin - Mesozoic Hamrat Duru Group Hawasina complex, Oman. GeoArabia 9(2):81-132 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125202: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 06.03.2012, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Halobia charlyana Mojsisovics 1874 oyster