Jabal Wasa north (Triassic of Oman)

Also known as Reef 202

Where: Oman (24.7° N, 55.9° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° S, 47.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jabal Wasa Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Most likely middle Carnian in age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone

• Sponge bafflestones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. Bernecker. 1996. Upper Triassic reefs of the Oman Mountains: Data from the south Tethyan margin. Facies 34:41-76 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24305: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 05.08.2002, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cladogirvanella cipitensis
  -
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
 Nostocales - Rivulariaceae
Rivularia "sp. 1" Agardh 1886
listed as Rivularia/Cayeuxia
Rivularia "sp. 2" Agardh 1886
listed as Rivularia/Cayeuxia
Rivularia "sp. 3" Agardh 1886
listed as Rivularia/Cayeuxia
Rivularia "sp. 4" Agardh 1886
listed as Rivularia/Cayeuxia
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Hedstroemia sp. Rothpletz 1913
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
"Parachaetetes cf. cassianus" = Parachaetetes cassiana Flugel 1961
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
 Thaumatoporellales -
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Cryptocoeliidae
? Cryptocoelia sp. Steinmann 1882 demosponge
Cryptocoelia zitteli Steinmann 1882 demosponge
 Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Solenolmia manon Münster 1841 demosponge
subsp. manon
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Alpinothalamia bavarica Ott 1967 demosponge
? Uvanella lamellata Senowbari-Daryan 1981 demosponge
Jablonskyia andrusovi Jablonsky 1975 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Ceotinellidae
Ceotinella mirunae Pantic 1975 demosponge
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae "indet. 1" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Chaetetidae "indet. 2" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Stromatoporoidea
  -
? Cassianostroma kuepperi Flügel 1960 stromatoporoid sponge
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
"Tubiphytes" sp. Maslov 1956
"Tubiphytes" gracilis Schafer and Senowbary-Daryan 1983
Ladinella porata
  -
Radiomura
  -
Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Barbafera carnica Senowbari-Daryan 1980
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800