Musandam Mountains (Triassic of the United Arab Emirates)

Where: United Arab Emirates (25.6° N, 56.1° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 42.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ghalilah Formation, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• most data from Sumra Member, possibly ranging to the Rhaetian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified floatstone and lithified rudstone

• low-energy deeper subtidal zone of an outer shelf environment
• mud-rich float- and rudstones with a mudstone to wackestone matrix; chaetetids associated with wallowaconchid bivalves or spongiomorphids; sphinctozoans and inozoans in association with solitary or branching corals, spongiomorphids, hydrozoans or wallowaconchid bivalves

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. Senowbari-Daryan and F. Maurer. 2008. Upper Triassic (Norian) hypercalcified sponges from the Musandam Peninsula (United Arab Emirates and Oman). Facies 54:433-460 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85064: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Aulotortus sp.
Aulotortus sp. Weynschenk 1956
Lithocodium aggregatum
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Lithocodium aggregatum
Hydrozoa
 Milleporina - Heterastrididae
Heterastridium sp.
Heterastridium sp. Reuss 1865 fire coral
 Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Spongiomorpha sp.
Spongiomorpha sp. Frech 1890
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
? Peronidella sp.
? Peronidella sp. Hinde 1893 calcareous sponge
listed as ?Peronidella ?Paradeningeria sp.
Demospongiae
 Verticillitida - Verticillitidae
Nevadathalamia arabica n. sp., Nevadathalamia conica n. sp., Fanthalamia milahaensis n. sp., Iranothalamia incrustans, Cinnabaria regularis n. sp.
Nevadathalamia arabica n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Maurer 2008 demosponge
Nevadathalamia conica n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Maurer 2008 demosponge
Fanthalamia milahaensis n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Maurer 2008 demosponge
Iranothalamia incrustans Boiko 1991 demosponge
Cinnabaria regularis n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Maurer 2008 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Hajarispongia osmani
Hajarispongia osmani Senowbari-Daryan and Yancey 2007 demosponge
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet.
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
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Lovcenipora chaetetiformis, Lovcenipora sp., Lovcenipora musandamensis n. sp.
Lovcenipora sp. demosponge
Lovcenipora musandamensis n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Maurer 2008 demosponge
 Agelasida - Auriculospongiidae
Cavusonella triassica n. sp., Molengraaffia regularis
Cavusonella triassica n. sp. demosponge
listed as Cavsonella
Molengraaffia regularis Vinassa de Regny 1915 demosponge
Stromatoporoidea
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Circopora cf. caucasica, ? Circopora sp.
Circopora cf. caucasica stromatoporoid sponge
? Circopora sp. stromatoporoid sponge
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Megalodontida - Wallowaconchidae
Wallowaconchidae indet.
Wallowaconchidae indet. Yancey and Stanley 1999 clam
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.