Al Aqil - lower part: Julian, Oman
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cyanophyceae
- Garwoodiaceae
|
||||||||||
Baccanella floriformis
Pantic 1971
|
||||||||||
unclassified
|
||||||||||
Macrotubus babai
|
||||||||||
Ophtalmidium sp.
(Kübler and Zwingli 1870)
|
||||||||||
misspelling Ophthalmidium | ||||||||||
Lituolida
- Lituolidae
|
||||||||||
Bigenerina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
|
||||||||||
Cuneolinidae
|
||||||||||
Palaeolituonella sp.
|
||||||||||
Rhodophyceae
- Solenoporaceae
|
||||||||||
Parachaetetes sp.
Deninger 1906
|
||||||||||
Ulvophyceae
- Bryopsidales
- Halimedaceae
|
||||||||||
Egericodium hungaricum
Flügel et al. 1992
|
||||||||||
Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Cryptocoeliidae
|
||||||||||
Cryptocoelia zitteli
Steinmann 1882
|
||||||||||
Demospongiae
- Verticillitida
- Verticillitidae
|
||||||||||
Stylothalamia dehmi
Ott 1967
|
||||||||||
synonym of Stylothalamia columnaris | ||||||||||
Demospongiae
- Verticillitida
- Colospongiidae
|
||||||||||
Colospongia dubia
(Münster 1841)
|
||||||||||
Demospongiae
- Hadromerida
- Polysiphonidae
|
||||||||||
Zardinia platithalamica
Dieci et al. 1968
|
||||||||||
Zardinia cf. retrosiphonata
Senowbari-Daryan 1990
|
||||||||||
Hydrozoa
- Nigriporellidae
|
||||||||||
"Tubiphytes" multisiphonatus
|
||||||||||
"Tubiphytes" gracilis
Schafer and Senowbary-Daryan 1983
|
||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Conophyllidae
|
||||||||||
Rhopalodendron juliensis
Turnsek and Buser 1989
|
||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Guembelastraeidae
|
||||||||||
Stuoresia fluegeli
Turnsek and Senowbari-Daryan 1994
|
||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Protoheterastraeidae
|
||||||||||
Protoheterastrea minor
Turnsek and Buser 1989
|
||||||||||
enteres as Proheterastrea minor | ||||||||||
unclassified
|
||||||||||
Ladinella porata
Ott 1968
|
||||||||||
Plexoramea celebriformis
|
||||||||||
Radiomura cautica
Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
|
||||||||||
Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
|
||||||||||
Barbafera carnica
Senowbari-Daryan 1980
|
||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Oman |
Coordinates: | 22.8° North, 57.8° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 20.6° South, 49.9° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
Stage: | Carnian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 3 |
Key time interval: | Julian | ||
Age range of interval: | 235.00000 - 232.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | coarse lithified packstone |
Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Geology comments: The Misfah Formation belongs to the Hawasina Complex, which represents a relict of the former Southern Tethyan Ocean. Blocks of the original Misfah Formation are now embedded within a 30-50 cm thick calcareous debris flow (megabreccia). The megabreccia is of Early Jurassic age. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some microfossils,difficult macrofossils |
Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Reef 2916 | ||
Database number: | 49417 | ||
Authorizer: | F. Fursich | Enterer: | A. Tomasovych |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2005-04-15 10:25:01 | Last modified: | 2012-08-16 06:59:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-15 10:25:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13207. | B. Senowbari-Daryan, M. Bernecker, L. Krystyn and M. Siblik. 1999. Carnian reef biota from a megabreccia of the Hawasina complex (Al Aqil, Oman). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 105(3):327-342 [F. Fursich/A. Tomasovych/A. Tomasovych] |