Wadi nayid Section (13), BR84 (Jurassic of Oman)

Where: Oman (22.7° N, 57.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 42.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Sid'r Formation), Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone and lithified, white radiolarite

• Silicified lithoclastic calcarentie and white radiolarian 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 125288: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 07.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Spumellaria - Emiluviidae
Emiluvia pessagnoi Foreman 1973 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parvivaccidae
Acastea diaphorogona Foreman 1973 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
 Spumellaria - Tritrabidae
Tritrabs ewingi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Dicerosaturnalis dicranacanthos, "Spongosaturnalis breviaculeatus" = Acanthocircus, "Spongosaturnalis horridus" = Acanthocircus, "Acanthocircus furiosus" = Moebicircus furiosus
Dicerosaturnalis dicranacanthos Squinabol radiolarian
"Spongosaturnalis breviaculeatus" = Acanthocircus radiolarian
"Spongosaturnalis horridus" = Acanthocircus radiolarian
"Acanthocircus furiosus" = Moebicircus furiosus Jud 1994 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
Katroma milloti Schaaf 1984 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Spongocapsulidae
Obesacapsula cetia Foreman 1973 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Pseudodictyomitridae
Pseudodictyomitra carpatica Lozyniak 1969 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Triactoma luciae radiolarian
Triactoma tithonianum Rüst 1885 radiolarian
[entered as Triactoma tithoniana]