Where: Oman (22.5° N, 59.1° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 47.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Radiolarian Chert Member (Zulla Formation), Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)
• samples BR918, BR919: Spongotortilispinus moixi zone, sample BR917: between Tetraporobrachia haeckeli and Spongotortilispinus moixi zone, early Late Carnian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert and lithified, cherty/siliceous shale
Size class: microfossils
Primary reference: P. Dumitrica, U. K. Tekin, and Y. Bedi. 2010. Eptingiacea and Saturnaliacea (Radiolaria) from the middle Carnian of Turkey and some late Ladinian to early Norian samples from Oman and Alaska. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 84:259-292 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96085: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.05.2010
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