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 | |
Columastrea dubia Alloiteau 1958 stony coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Pachydiscidae indet. Spath 1922 ammonite |