Turtle site (Oligocene of Oman)

Where: Dhofar, Oman (17.0° N, 54.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 47.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shizar Member (Ashawq Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• near the base of the Shizar Member of the Ashawq Formation; earliest Oligocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2017

Primary reference: M. Al-Kindi, M. Pickford, Y. Al-Sinani, I. Al-Ismaili, A. Hartman and A. Heward. 2017. Large Mammals from the Rupelian of Oman – Recent Finds. Fossil Imprint 73(3-4):300-321 [P. Coster/P. Coster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192927: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 26.04.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Vertebrate indet.
TN 2017-84
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
TN 2017-83
Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
TN 2017-78
 Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae
Arsinoitherium indet. Beadnell 1902 placental
TN 2017-82
 Proboscidea - Barytheriidae
Omanitherium indet. Seiffert et al. 2012 proboscidean
TN 2017-81 TN 2017-74 TN 2017-75 TN 2017-79 TN 2017-80