Al Dhaby Section (14), BR20 (Jurassic to of Oman)

Where: Oman (22.7° N, 57.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 42.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Oolithic limestone Member (Guwayza Formation), Late/Upper Bajocian to Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, gray limestone and lithified, green shale

• Grey, ooid-domintaed calcarenite, calcilutite and green shale

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 125306: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 07.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
Podobursa aff. helvetica Rüst 1885 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Amphipyndacidae
Palinandromeda depressa De Wever and Miconnet 1985 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Tetraditryma pseudoplena Baumgartner 1980 radiolarian
Tetraditryma corralitosensis Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Angulobracchia digitata Baumgartner 1980 radiolarian
Paronaella aff. kotura Baumgartner 1980 radiolarian
Paronaella aff. mulleri Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Spongodiscidae
 Spumellaria - Parvivaccidae
Leugeo aff. parvispinatus, "Levileugeo ordinarius" = Leugeo ordinarius
"Levileugeo ordinarius" = Leugeo ordinarius Yang and Wang 1990 radiolarian