Bed D, white marl above Omanitherium site top of section (Oligocene of Oman)

Where: Dhofar, Oman (17.0° N, 54.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 47.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shizar Member (Ashawq Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• near the base of the Shizar Member of the Ashawq Formation; earliest Oligocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2017

Primary reference: M. Al-Kindi, M. Pickford, Y. Al-Sinani, I. Al-Ismaili, A. Hartman and A. Heward. 2017. Large Mammals from the Rupelian of Oman – Recent Finds. Fossil Imprint 73(3-4):300-321 [P. Coster/P. Coster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192929: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 26.04.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Echinoid indet.
TN 2017-39
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullariidae
Pila indet. Röding 1798 apple snail
TN 2017-34
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetus indet. Daudin 1800 worm shell
TN 2017-42
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten indet. Müller 1776 scallop
TN 2017-38