Where: United Arab Emirates (25.8° N, 56.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° S, 42.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Ghalilah Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• includes Asfal, Sumra, Sakhra and Shuba Member of Hudson and Jefferies 1961, 84 m thick
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: M. H. M. Metwally and M. S. M. Ali. 1992. The Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Elphinstone Group, western part of the Musandam Peninsula, United Arab Emirates. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte (5)257-266 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 101399: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Hagabirhynchia arabica Jefferies 1961 | |
Austriellula dilatata Suess 1855 | |
"Spiriferina stracheyi" = Tulungospirifer stracheyi
"Spiriferina stracheyi" = Tulungospirifer stracheyi Salter 1865 | |
Spiriferina abichi Oppel 1865 | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeocardita buruca Boehm 1906 clam | |
"Anodontophora griesbachi" = Unionites griesbachi
"Anodontophora griesbachi" = Unionites griesbachi Bittner 1899 clam | |
Costatoria omanica Diener 1908 clam | |
Lopha blanfordi Lees 1928 oyster | |
Indopecten amunsiiformis scallop | |
Plagiostoma nudum Parona 1889 file clam
Pseudolimea cumaunica Bittner 1899 file clam | |
Modiolus omanensis Hudson and Jefferies 1961 mussel
Modiolus speciosus Merla 1933 mussel
Modiolus jaworskii Wanner and Knipscheer 1951 mussel | |
Anthozoa | |
"Thecosmilia subdichotoma" = Volzeia subdichotoma
"Thecosmilia subdichotoma" = Volzeia subdichotoma Münster 1841 stony coral | |
"Thamnasteria rectilamellosa" = Pamiroseris rectilamellosa
"Thamnasteria rectilamellosa" = Pamiroseris rectilamellosa Winckler 1861 stony coral |