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

Also known as Reef 1364

Where: Oman (23.5° N, 57.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 46.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Al Hassanat Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Biostromes in protected inner platform settings

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 24027: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Toucasia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Praeradiolites sp. Douvillé 1902 rudist
Eoradiolites plicatus Conrad 1852 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Sellaea ex gr. himerensis rudist
+cespitosa
Caprotina sp. Orbigny 1842 rudist
 Hippuritida - Polyconitidae
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Triploporella sp. Steinmann 1880
Foraminifera
  -
 Globigerinina - Favusellidae
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae