Sinjar Fm at Qara Dagh-13: Selandian - Thanetian, Iraq

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dissocladella sp. Pia 1936
Cymopolia ellongata
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinaceae
Amphiroa iraquensis Johnson 1964
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Lithophyllaceae
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Hydrolithaceae
Lithoporella melobesioides Foslie 1909
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Orbitolinidae
Dictyoconus sp.
Rotaliidae
Kathina sp.
Rotalia trochidiformis Lamarck 1804
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicides ammalensis
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:215130
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:K. Hassell
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2020-10-31 15:00:26 Last modified:2020-10-31 15:00:26
Access level:the public Released:2020-10-31 15:00:26
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]