Where: Oman (19.0° N, 57.8° E: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 53.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Ghubbarah Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Ghubbarah Fm, which is unconformably overlies the Warak Fm (late Chattian). THICKNESS: Unknown. AGE: early-middle Aquitanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: top of section, probably nearly base of formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal floatstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by Harzhauser, Reuter, Piller, Kroh; reposited in the NHMW
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Harzhauser, Reuter, Piller, Kroh. REPOSITORY: NHMW (Vienna).
Primary reference: M. Harzhauser. 2007. Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280:75-121 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75609: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cantharidus (Beraua) elkeae n. sp.
Cantharidus (Beraua) elkeae n. sp. Harzhauser 2007 top snail | |
"Campanile pseudoobeliscus" = Cerithium pseudoobeliscus, "Cerithium rude" = Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rude, Gourmya delbosi
"Campanile pseudoobeliscus" = Cerithium pseudoobeliscus Grateloup 1832 cerith snail
"Cerithium rude" = Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rude Sowerby 1840 cerith snail
Gourmya delbosi Michelotti 1861 cerith snail | |
Warakia pilleri n. sp., Pachycrommium harrisi
Warakia pilleri n. sp. Harzhauser 2007 snail
Pachycrommium harrisi Pannekoek 1936 snail | |
Mitra cf. dufesnei Basterot 1825 mitre shell | |
Conus "n. sp. 1" Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Seraphs cf. subconvolutus d'Orbigny 1852 snail | |
"Dilatilabrum sublatissimus" = Dilatilabrum sublatissimum, "Strombus gijskronenbergi n. sp." = Persististrombus gijskronenbergi
"Dilatilabrum sublatissimus" = Dilatilabrum sublatissimum d'Orbigny 1852 true conch
"Strombus gijskronenbergi n. sp." = Persististrombus gijskronenbergi Harzhauser 2007 true conch | |
Projenneria sabaica n. sp.
Projenneria sabaica n. sp. Fehse 2007 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Tridacna evae Harzhauser et al. 2008 cockle |