Where: Oman (24.3° N, 55.9° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° N, 46.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qahlah Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Unspecified level. Age could be as old as late Campanian or as young as early Upper Maastrichtian based on ammonite biostratigraphy. Lower Maastrichtian (to early Upper Maastrichtian).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, silty limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Skelton; reposited in the OUM

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1995. Maastrichtian ammonites from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 51:241-250 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175466: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.12.2015

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