Jebel Bu Milh, section 2, bed 9 (Cretaceous of Oman)

Where: Oman (24.5° N, 55.9° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° N, 46.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

• The remaining carbonate succession, by comparison with beds at Jebel Rawdah, represent shallow subtidal carbonate sand flats formed above wave base.
• Bioclastic orbitoid-rich packstone

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 175473: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Nostoceras (Nostoceras) major
Nostoceras (Nostoceras) major Kennedy and Cobban 1993 ammonite