Qabil Section (2), BR387 (Jurassic of Oman)

Where: Oman (23.3° N, 56.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 42.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Variegated Mudstone Member (Wahrah Formation), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone and lithified, white chert

• Radiolarian-bearing calcilutite and calcarenite (partially silicified) and white chert

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: I. Blechschmidt, P. Dumitrica, A. Matter, L. Krystyn, and T. Peters. 2004. Stratigraphic architecture of the northern Oman continental margin - Mesozoic Hamrat Duru Group Hawasina complex, Oman. GeoArabia 9(2):81-132 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125300: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 07.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
"Tripocyclia jonesi" = Triactoma jonesi
"Tripocyclia jonesi" = Triactoma jonesi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Mirifusus chenodes Renz 1974 radiolarian
Ristola altissima Rüst 1885 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Spongocapsulidae
Spongocapsula palmerae Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
Podobursa spinosa Ozvoldova 1975 radiolarian
Podobursa triacantha Fischli 1916 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Angulobracchia biordinalis Ozvoldova 1984 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Emiluviidae
Emiluvia pentaporata Steiger and Steiger 1994 radiolarian
Emiluvia orea Baumgartner 1980 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Tritrabidae
Tritrabs ewingi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Orbiculiformidae
Orbiculiforma lowreyensis Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Archaeospongoprunidae
Archaeospongoprunum imlayi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian