Sinjar Fm at Wara Mali-28: Selandian - Thanetian, Iraq

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae
Pyrgo sp. Defrance 1824
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Austrotrillinidae
Austrotrillina conica
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Tritaxiidae
Tritaxia sp.
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Acroporella sp. Praturlon 1964
see common names

Geography
Country:Iraq State/province:Kurdistan
Coordinates: 37.2° North, 43.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.7° North, 36.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Selandian - Thanetian Zone: Biozone 1A, 4A
Age range of interval:61.60000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sinjar
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: Sinjar Formation consists of limestone, showing elements of algal reef facies, a lagoonal miliolid facies and nummulitic shoal facies and usually recrystallized
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Geology Department, University of Baghdad
Metadata
Database number:215102
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:K. Hassell
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2020-10-30 20:34:48 Last modified:2020-10-30 20:34:48
Access level:the public Released:2020-10-30 20:34:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
74174. E. K. Al-Dulaimi and S. I. Al-Dulaimi. 2017. A study of biostratigraphy of Sinjar Formation in selected sections from northern Iraq. Iraqi Journal of Science 58(2B):891-916 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]