Wadi Lusaba (Permian of Oman)

Where: Oman (21.0° N, 57.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 52.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Khuff Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• 9.8-12.8 m below top unconformity. Presumably from the Lusaba Limestone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Thin-bedded crinoidal limestones with marly partings

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Goldring. 1957. Pseudophillipsia (Tril) from the Permian (or Uralian) of Oman, Arabia. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 38:195-210 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108996: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.05.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Pseudophillipsia lipara, Pseudophillipsia steatopyga n. sp.
Pseudophillipsia lipara Goldring 1957 trilobite
Pseudophillipsia steatopyga n. sp. Goldring 1957 trilobite