Oman Peninsula, Wadi Milaha (Triassic of Oman)

Where: Musandam Peninsula, Oman (26.0° N, 56.3° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 42.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sumra Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; wackestone

• These are mainly thin-bedded, brown weathering, shelly limestones, and reddish-purple, yellow or brown marly shales, closely interbedded. There are also occasional massive fine-grained limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. G. S. Hudson and R. P. S. Jefferies. 1961. Upper Triassic brachiopods and lamellibranchs from the Oman Peninsula, Arabia. Palaeontology 4(1):1-41 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56712: authorized by Andrew Smith, entered by Andrew Smith on 23.11.2005

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