Wadi Hammam, Nakhl Zone, Shuaiba Formation (Cretaceous of Oman)

Also known as Reef 2380

Where: Oman (23.3° N, 57.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° S, 45.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shuaiba Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• 3 main units: a) caprinid-dominated packstones and wackestones in the lower part and grainstones with caprinid debris; b) caprinid and coral grainstones and subordinate packstones with caprinids and Bacinella; c) wackestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. P. Masse, J. Borgomano, and S. Al Maskiry. 1998. A platform-to-basin transition for lower Aptian carbonates (Shuaiba Formation) of the northeastern Jebel Akhdar (Sultanate of Oman). Sedimentary Geology 119:297-309 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67020: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp.
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Offneria murgensis
 Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
Glossomyophorus costatus
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834