Where: Oman (21.0° N, 57.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 52.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 1 Member (Khuff Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Composite section built on five sections. Khuff is part of an unconformable second mega-sequence, which consists of the fluvial terrigenous Gharif Fm., overlain by marine marls and bioclastic limestones of the Khuff Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, muddy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Angiolini and H. Bucher. 1999. Taxonomy and quantitative biochronology of Guadalupian brachiopods from the Khuff Formation, southeastern Oman. Géobios 32(5):665-699 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63777: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 20.08.2006

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