Firq Section (17), BR499 (Cretaceous of Oman)

Where: Oman (22.9° N, 57.6° E: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 44.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Sid'r Formation), Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Radiolarian-bearing calcilutite, silicified calcarenite

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 125282: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 07.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Mirifusus dianae radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
Syringocapsa limatum Foreman 1973 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Spongocapsulidae
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Angulobracchia portmanni Baumgartner 1984 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pyramispongiidae
Pyramispongia barmsteinensis Steiger 1992 radiolarian