Sinjar Fm at Qara Dagh-11: Selandian - Thanetian, Iraq

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Soritidae
Orbitolites sp.
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Rotaliidae
Kathina sp.
Cuvillierina vallensis
Lockhartia sp.
Rotalia trochidiformis Lamarck 1804
Nummulitidae
Operculina subsalia
Assilina sp.
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Lagena sp. Walker and Boys 1784
Orbitolinidae
Dictyoconus sp.
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinaceae
Jania sp. Lamoroux 1812
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Lithothamniacae
Lithothamnium sp. Philippi
replaced by Lithothamnion
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Pycnoporidium levantimum
Cordilites sp. Pocta 1887
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Cymopolia kurdistanensis Elliot 1960
Dissocladella sp. Pia 1936
see common names

Geography
Country:Iraq State/province:Sulaymaniyah County:Darbandihkan
Coordinates: 35.3° North, 45.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.6° North, 38.4° 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 1-24A, 1F, 4F
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:215128
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:K. Hassell
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2020-10-31 14:52:13 Last modified:2020-10-31 14:52:13
Access level:the public Released:2020-10-31 14:52:13
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]