Birkat al Mawz (Triassic of Oman)

Also known as Reef 201

Where: Oman (22.9° N, 57.7° E: paleocoordinates 19.8° S, 49.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Misfah Formation (Kawr Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified chert

• Oman exotics
• small reefal blocks in basinal cherts

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. Bernecker. 1996. Upper Triassic reefs of the Oman Mountains: Data from the south Tethyan margin. Facies 34:41-76 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24309: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 05.08.2002, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Barbafera carnica Senowbari-Daryan 1980
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
"Tubiphytes" sp. Maslov 1956
"Tubiphytes" gracilis Schafer and Senowbary-Daryan 1983
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Volzeiidae
Volzeia badiotica Volz 1896 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Protoheterastraeidae
Protoheterastrea minor Turnsek and Buser 1989 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae
Margarosmilia confluens Münster 1841 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Conophyllidae
Rhopalodendron juliensis Turnsek and Buser 1989 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Guembelastraeidae
Stuoresia bronni Klipstein 1843 stony coral
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Guadalupiidae
Diecithalamia polysiphonata Dieci et al. 1968 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia catenulata Ott 1967 demosponge
subsp. catenulata
Colospongia cf. catenulata Ott 1967 demosponge
Colospongia dubia Münster 1841 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Ceotinellidae
Ceotinella mirunae Pantic 1975 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Alpinothalamia bavarica Ott 1967 demosponge
Celyphia sp. Pomel 1872 demosponge
Uvanella irregularis Ott 1967 demosponge
Isnella misiki
  -
Isnella misiki Senowbari 2007
Plexoramea
  -
Plexoramea cerebriformis
  -
Ladinella porata
  -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Involutinina - Involutinidae