Wadi Milaha, lower Ghalilah Formation (Triassic to of the United Arab Emirates)

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

• alternating beds of marl, marly limestone, shale and some limestone, uppermost part rich in corals

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
 Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae
Hagabirhynchia arabica Jefferies 1961
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
"Spiriferina stracheyi" = Tulungospirifer stracheyi
"Spiriferina stracheyi" = Tulungospirifer stracheyi Salter 1865
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina abichi Oppel 1865
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
Palaeocardita buruca Boehm 1906 clam
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
"Anodontophora griesbachi" = Unionites griesbachi
"Anodontophora griesbachi" = Unionites griesbachi Bittner 1899 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Costatoria omanica Diener 1908 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha blanfordi Lees 1928 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma nudum Parona 1889 file clam
Pseudolimea cumaunica Bittner 1899 file clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus omanensis Hudson and Jefferies 1961 mussel
Modiolus speciosus Merla 1933 mussel
Modiolus jaworskii Wanner and Knipscheer 1951 mussel
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Volzeiidae
"Thecosmilia subdichotoma" = Volzeia subdichotoma
"Thecosmilia subdichotoma" = Volzeia subdichotoma Münster 1841 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pamiroseriidae
"Thamnasteria rectilamellosa" = Pamiroseris rectilamellosa
"Thamnasteria rectilamellosa" = Pamiroseris rectilamellosa Winckler 1861 stony coral