Jebel Huwayyah, Qahlah Formation, bed 7, Loftusia levels (Cretaceous to of Oman)

Where: Oman (24.3° N, 55.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 46.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qahlah Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• lower part of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone and lithified conglomerate

• poorly sorted sandstones and siltstones, massive conglomerates

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. C. Baron-Szabo. 2000. Late Campanian-Maastrichtian corals from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London (Geology) 56(2):91-131 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206415: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.11.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Barysmilia iberica
Barysmilia iberica Baron-Szabo 1998 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Agathelia asperella
Agathelia asperella Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
Cladophyllia stewartae
Cladophyllia stewartae Wells 1944 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis simonyi
Calamophylliopsis simonyi Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Phragmosmilia lineata
Phragmosmilia lineata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Trochocyathus microphyes
Trochocyathus microphyes Felix 1903 stony coral
 Helioporacea -
Polytremacis blainvillei