Wadi Mu'aydin Section (18), BR1131 (Jurassic to of Oman)

Where: Oman (23.0° N, 57.7° E: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 43.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Tawi Sadh Member (Guwayza Formation), Aalenian to Aalenian (174.1 - 168.4 Ma)

• Aalenian is questionable

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, gray chert and lithified, black, gray shale

• Grey/black chert and shale, quartz-bearing calcarenite and calcilutite

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: I. Blechschmidt, P. Dumitrica, A. Matter, L. Krystyn, and T. Peters. 2004. Stratigraphic architecture of the northern Oman continental margin - Mesozoic Hamrat Duru Group Hawasina complex, Oman. GeoArabia 9(2):81-132 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125210: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 07.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
Hsuum primum radiolarian
? Hsuum "sp. 1" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
sensu Baumgartner et al. 1995
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiellidae
Eucyrtidiellum unumaense Yao 1979 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parvivaccidae
Acaeniotylopsis variatus Kito and De Wever 1994 radiolarian
triacanthus subsp.