Jebel Bu Milh, section 2, bed 9: Early Maastrichtian, Oman
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Nostoceratidae
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Nostoceras (Nostoceras) major
Kennedy and Cobban 1993
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Geography
| Country: | Oman |
| Coordinates: | 24.5° North, 55.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.1° South, 53.4° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Early Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Simsima |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified packstone |
| Lithology description: Bioclastic orbitoid-rich packstone | |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: The remaining carbonate succession, by comparison with beds at Jebel Rawdah, represent shallow subtidal carbonate sand flats formed above wave base. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 175473 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-12-12 20:04:38 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-12-12 20:04:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57375. | W. J. Kennedy. 1995. Maastrichtian ammonites from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 51:241-250 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |