Firq Section (17), BR655 (Triassic to of Oman)

Where: Oman (22.9° N, 57.6° E: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 43.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• Late Norian - Rhaetian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, red chert

• Exotic block and red chert

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 125287: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 07.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Ancorinida - Paelospongiidae
Paelospongia turgida Mostler 1986 demosponge
Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Pentactinocarpidae
Pentactinocarpus cf. sevaticus Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian