Where: United Arab Emirates (25.7° N, 56.1° E: paleocoordinates 2.7° S, 42.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ghalilah Formation, Sevatian to Sevatian (212.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• An extensively burrowed limestone level, at the top of the section, within the Ghalilah Formation. The Ghalilah Formation is assumed to have been deposited during the late Norian to Rhaetian, documented by the foraminiferal index marker Triasina hantkeni Majzon (1954), the hydrozoan Heterastridium Reuss (1865), and the ammonoid Neotibetites Krumbeck (1913) of Norian to possibly Rhaetian age (Maurer et al. 2008).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone
• -Shallow marine carbonates deposited on a passive margin of the Arabian Plate.
• -fossil was found in an extensively burrowed limestone level
• -environment interpreted to have been warm water conditions in a tropical to subtropical, subtidal setting with open marine connections
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Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum, Geneva (MHNG)
Primary reference: J. Chablais, R. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2010. A new Triassic decapod, Platykotta akaina, from the Arabian shelf of the northern United Arab Emirates: earliest occurrence of the Anomura. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 85:93-102 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138736: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 26.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Malacostraca | |
Platykotta akaina n. gen. n. sp.
Platykotta akaina n. gen. n. sp. Chablais et al. 2010 decapod | |