98/53A, Bioclastic Limestone, Wadi Wasit (Triassic of Oman)

Where: Oman (23.0° N, 58.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 54.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• Eumorphotis Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal grainstone and shelly/skeletal packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. Krystyn, S. Richoz, A. Baud and R. Twitchett. 2003. A unique Permian-Triassic boundary section from the Neotethyan Hawasina Basin, Central Oman Mountains. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 191:329-344 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/C. Jamet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44829: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 17.09.2004, edited by Pete Wagner and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
? Strobeus indet. de Koninck 1881 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Dicellonema ? abrekensis Kaim 2009 snail
 Trochoidea - Colloniidae
? Chartronella indet. Cossman 1902 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
Coelostylina sp. Kittl 1894 snail
 Neritoina - Tricolnaticopsidae
? Pachyomphalus indet. Böhm 1895 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Eumorphotis sp. Bittner 1901 scallop
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia sp. Bittner 1901 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
"Proptychites" markhami Diener 1897 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Otoceratidae
Anotoceras nala Diener 1897 ceratite
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Anchignathodontidae
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Neogondolella planata Clark 1959 conodont