Sinjar Fm at Qara Dagh-18 (Paleocene to of Iraq)

Where: Sulaymaniyah, Iraq (35.3° N, 45.4° E: paleocoordinates 20.6° N, 38.4° E)

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When: Biozone 1-24A, 1F, 4F zone, Sinjar Formation, Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 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 215135: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 31.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae