Where: Oman (22.5° N, 59.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° S, 55.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• The limestone beds from WKJ-1 and WKJ-3 have been dated by fusulines as Kubergandian (=late Kungurian-early Roadian according to Angiolini et al. 2015) and WKJ-1 by conodonts (Mesogondolella zsuzsannae, Sweetognathus guizhouensis, Hindeodus excavatus) as Kungurian (Leven & Heward 2013; Lance Lambert pers. comm. in Fortey & Heward 2015), which means a late Kungurian age for WKJ-1 and a late Kungurian-early Roadian for WKJ-3. Indeed, the species Sweetognathus guizhouensis does not range to the Kungurian-Roadian boundary (Charles Henderson pers. comm. to Lucia Angiolini) so it is possible that the age of these outcrops is not younger than late Kungurian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• Repository: Palaeontological Museum of the Department of Earth Sciences 'A. Desio', University of Milan, Italy

Primary reference: R. A. Fortey and A. P. Heward. 2015. A new, morphologically diverse Permian trilobite fauna from Oman. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60:201-216 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166923: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.03.2015

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