Qabil Section (2), BR415 (Cretaceous of Oman)

Where: Oman (23.3° N, 56.6° E: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 43.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bedded Chert Member (Wahrah Formation), Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Red-brown radiolarian chert and red shale (ribbon 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 125303: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 07.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Suna hybum radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Pseudodictyomitridae
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
 Nassellaria - Sethocapsidae
Sethocapsa orca radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Tethysetta boesii Parona 1890 radiolarian
Mirifusus chenodes Renz 1974 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Aurisaturnalis carinatus radiolarian
perforatus subsp.
 Spumellaria - Archaeospongoprunidae
Archaeospongoprunum patricki Jud 1994 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parvivaccidae
Acaeniotyle umbilicata Rüst 1898 radiolarian
Praeconosphaera sphaeroconus Rüst 1898 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Angulobracchia heteroporata Steiger 1992 radiolarian