Jebel Huwayyah, Qahlah Fm, beds 3-8 (Cretaceous to of Oman)

Where: Oman (24.3° N, 55.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 46.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qahlah Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• above level of 1st ammonite Loftusia beds and coral clast horizon

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, silty limestone

• highly fossiliferous silty limestones

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: R. C. Baron-Szabo. 2000. Late Campanian-Maastrichtian corals from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London (Geology) 56(2):91-131 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206408: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora octophylla Felix 1906 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Pseudofavia grandiflora Reuss 1854 stony coral
Astraraea multiradiata Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Goniopora elegans Leymerie 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Guyniidae
"Diegosmilia complanata" = Palaeopsammia zitteli
"Diegosmilia complanata" = Palaeopsammia zitteli Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Fungiastraea crespoi Felix 1891 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Placosmilia sinuosa Reuss 1854 stony coral
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Aulosmilia aspera Sowerby 1832 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
Astrogyra edwardsi Reuss 1854 stony coral