Wadi Saal Section (10), BR704 (Jurassic to of Oman)

Where: Oman (22.8° N, 56.9° E: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 42.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Oolithic limestone Member (Guwayza Formation), Early/Lower Bajocian to Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

• Thickly-bedded, grey ooid-dominated 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 125277: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 07.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
? Praewilliriedellum spinosum Kozur 1984 radiolarian
Striatojaponocapsa plicarum Yao 1979 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
"Transhsuum maxwelli" = Hsuum maxwelli
"Transhsuum maxwelli" = Hsuum maxwelli Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Archaeodictyomitra rigida Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Spongocapsulidae
Spongocapsula sp. Pessagno 1977 radiolarian