Jebel Huwayyah, section 1, bed 9 (Cretaceous of Oman)

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)

• Immediately below the Loftusia-rich beds. 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, shelly/skeletal, sandy wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

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 175470: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.12.2015, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Columastrea dubia Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscidae indet. Spath 1922 ammonite