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 44832: 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 | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Kymatites" hodgsoni ceratite | |
? Bukkenites scheibleri ceratite
"Proptychites" markhami Diener 1897 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
Eumorphotis sp. Bittner 1901 scallop | |
Claraia sp. Bittner 1901 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Dicellonema ? abrekensis Kaim 2009 snail | |
Coelostylina sp. Kittl 1894 snail | |
? Pachyomphalus indet. Böhm 1895 snail | |
? Chartronella indet. Cossman 1902 snail | |
? Strobeus indet. de Koninck 1881 snail | |
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848 | |
Ambocoeliidae indet. George 1931 | |
Conodonta | |
Neogondolella discreta conodont
Neogondolella planata Clark 1959 conodont |