Sulekan village- 615 (Paleocene to of Iraq)

Where: Kurdistan, Iraq (35.4° N, 45.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.7° N, 38.8° E)

When: Sinjar Formation, Thanetian to Thanetian (59.2 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; grainstone

• Large foraminifers Rudstone (G4) consists of large foraminifers (large orbitolits), gastropods, rotaliids, miliolids, green algae, echinoid plates, nummulites and red algae fragments (Pl. II, photos 3, 5). Sometimes the gastropod shells are filled with dasycladales; some skeletal

•foraminifers have been fractured by microfaults, probably during late diagenesis. The miliolids become predominant in the upper part of this facies (towards the upper part of the

•section)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University of Salaimini, Iraq

Primary reference: H. Daod. 2009. Carbonate microfacies analysis of Sinjar Formation from Qara Dagh mountains, south-west of Sulaimani city, Kurdistan region, Iraq. International Journal of Geological and Environmental Engineering 3(10):332-342 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215181: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 31.10.2020

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Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Cuvillierina sireli