Sinjar Fm at Wara Mali-36 (Eocene of Iraq)

Where: Kurdistan, Iraq (37.2° N, 43.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 37.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Biozone 1A, 4-5A zone, Sinjar Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Sinjar Formation consists of limestone, showing elements of algal reef facies, a lagoonal miliolid facies and nummulitic shoal facies and usually recrystallized

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Geology Department, University of Baghdad

Primary reference: E. K. Al-Dulaimi and S. I. Al-Dulaimi. 2017. A study of biostratigraphy of Sinjar Formation in selected sections from northern Iraq. Iraqi Journal of Science 58(2B):891-916 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215109: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 30.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Amphiroa iraquensis, Mesophyllum sp.
Amphiroa iraquensis Johnson 1964
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Sphaerogypsina globula
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Valvulina sp.
Valvulina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
Clypeina merienda
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Parkerella sp.
Parkerella sp. Morellet and Morellet 1922
 Dasycladales - Thyrsoporellaceae
Belzungia sp.
Belzungia sp. Morellet 1908