Wadi El Assyi, coral-rudist member, Nakhl, Oman (Cretaceous to of Oman)

Also known as Reef 1364

Where: Oman (23.5° N, 57.9° E: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 45.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Al Hassanat Formation, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified packstone and lithified wackestone

• Small biostromes and reefs in outer platform setting
• Meter-thick beds of biocalstic grainstrones and packstones interbedded with massive corals packstones and wackestones.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J.-P. Masse, J. Borgomano, and S. Al Maskiry. 1997. Stratigraphy and tectonosedimentary evolution of a late Aptian-Albian carbonate margin: the northeastern Jebel Akhdar (Sultanate of Oman). Sedimentary Geology 113:269-280 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24025: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• No coral data reported
unclassified
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Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Polyconitidae
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Sellaea sp. Stefano 1889 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Eoradiolites plicatus Conrad 1852 rudist
Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae