PBDB Collection

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Fungi indet. Jahn and Jahn 1959	Thomas et al. 1991
	"mushrooms and mushroom spores"
Thecostraca

	Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816	Thomas et al. 1991
Malacostraca - Decapoda

	Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802	Thomas et al. 1991
Gastropoda

	Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795	Thomas et al. 1991
Bivalvia

	Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Thomas et al. 1991
Mammalia

	Qatranitherium aff. africanum (Simons and Bown 1984)	Crochet et al. 1992
	original and current combination Peratherium africanus
Mammalia - Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae

	cf. Arsinoitherium indet. Beadnell 1902	Thomas et al. 1999

	Arsinotherium andrewsi	Pickford 2015
	ONHM TQ 1992-1-3
Mammalia - Proboscidea

	Phiomia sp. Andrews and Beadnell 1902	Thomas et al. 1999
	ONHM TQ 15
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae

	Thyrohyrax meyeri Rasmussen and Simons 1991	Pickford et al. 1994
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Emballonuridae

	Dhofarella thaleri n. sp. Sigé et al. 1994	Sigé et al. 1994
Mammalia - Chiroptera

	Vespertilionoidea indet.	Sigé et al. 1994
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Nycterididae

	Chibanycteris herberti n. gen., n. sp. Sigé et al. 1994	Sigé et al. 1994
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Philisidae

	cf. Philisis sp. Sigé 1985	Sigé et al. 1994

	Philisis sevketi n. sp. Sigé et al. 1994	Sigé et al. 1994
Mammalia - Chiroptera

	Microchiroptera indet. Dobson 1875	Sigé et al. 1994
	incertae sedis
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Hipposideridae

	Hipposideridae indet. Lydekker 1891	Sigé et al. 1994

	Hipposideros omani n. sp. Sigé et al. 1994	Sigé et al. 1994
Mammalia - Creodonta

	Masrasector ligabuei n. sp. Crochet et al. 1990	Crochet et al. 1990
Mammalia - Rodentia - Anomaluridae

	Anomaluridae indet. Gill 1872	Thomas et al. 1999
Mammalia - Rodentia

	cf. Metaphiomys spp.	Thomas et al. 1999

	Metaphiomys cf. schaubi Wood 1968	Thomas et al. 1999
Mammalia - Rodentia - Myophiomyidae

	Phiomys cf. lavocati Wood 1968	Thomas et al. 1989
	recombined as Talahphiomys lavocati
Mammalia - Rodentia

	Phiomys cf. andrewsi Osborn 1908	Thomas et al. 1999
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817	Thomas et al. 1999
Mammalia - Primates - Propliopithecidae

	Propliopithecidae indet. Straus 1961	Thomas et al. 1999

	Oligopithecus rogeri n. sp. Gheerbrant et al. 1995	Gheerbrant et al. 1995

	Moeripithecus markgrafi Schlosser 1910	Thomas et al. 1991
	synonym of Propliopithecus haeckeli
Mammalia - Primates - Parapithecidae

	Parapithecidae indet. Schlosser 1911	Thomas et al. 1999

	cf. Apidium indet. Osborn 1908	Thomas et al. 1999
Mammalia - Primates

	Omanodon minor n. gen., n. sp. Gheerbrant et al. 1993	Gheerbrant et al. 1993
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

	Shizarodon dhofarensis n. gen., n. sp. Gheerbrant et al. 1993	Gheerbrant et al. 1993
	nomen dubium belonging to Anchomomyini
Reptilia

	Lacertilia indet. (Owen 1842)	Thomas et al. 1991

	Serpentes indet. (Linnaeus 1758)	Thomas et al. 1991
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae

	Podocnemididae indet. Cope 1868	Thomas et al. 1991
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

	Testudininae indet. Gray 1825	Thomas et al. 1991
Reptilia

	Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)	Thomas et al. 1991
	brevirostran crocodilians
Amphibia - Temnospondyli

	Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)	Thomas et al. 1991
Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes

	Osteoglossiformes indet. Berg 1940	Thomas et al. 1991
Actinopteri - Characiformes

	Characiformes indet. Regan 1911	Thomas et al. 1991
Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae

	Sparidae indet. (Cuvier 1817)	Thomas et al. 1991
Asteroidea

	Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830	Thomas et al. 1991
Echinoidea

	Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)	Thomas et al. 1991
unclassified

	Cnidaria indet. Hatschek 1888	Thomas et al. 1991
	"corals"

	Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866	Thomas et al. 1991
	"plant macrofossils"
Nummulitidae

	Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801	Thomas et al. 1991
Lituolida - Lituolidae

	Lituolidae indet. de Blainville 1825	Thomas et al. 1991
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Discorbidae

	Discorbidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838	Thomas et al. 1991
Elphidiidae

	Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808	Thomas et al. 1991
see common names

Geography

Country:	Oman	State/province:	Dhofar
Coordinates:	17.1° North, 54.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	10.2° North, 47.5° East
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map

Time

Period:	Paleogene	Epoch:	Oligocene
Stage:	Rupelian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:	Early/Lower Oligocene
Age range of interval:	33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:	31 ± 2 Ma (paleomagnetic)

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Ashawq	Member:	Shizar
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified argillaceous,calcareous marl
Environment:	coastal indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	162464
Authorizer:	P. Coster, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion	Enterer:	P. Coster, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion
Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2014-09-25 14:25:35	Last modified:	2014-09-25 14:25:35
Access level:	the public	Released:	2014-09-25 14:25:35
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

52908.

H. Thomas, J. Roger, S. Sen and Z. Al-Sulaimani. 1988. Découverte des plus anciens «anthropoïdes» du continent arabo-africain et d'un primate tarsiiforme dans l'Oligocène du sultanat d'Oman. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences de Paris, Série 2 306(12):823-829 [P. Coster/P. Coster]

Secondary references:

58104		J. Y. Crochet, H. Thomas, S. Sen, J. Roger, E. Gheerbrant and Z. Al-Sulaimani. 1992. Découverte d'un Péradectidé (Marsupialia) dans l'Oligocène inférieur du Sultanat d'Oman: nouvelles données sur la paléobiogréographie des Marsupiaux de la plaque arabo-africaine. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2, Mécanique, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'univers, Sciences de la Terre 315(5):539-545 [P. Coster/P. Coster]
52915		J.-Y. Crochet, H. Thomas, and J. Roger. 1990. Première découverte d'un créodonte dans la péninsule Arabique : Masrasector ligabuei nov. sp. (oligocène inférieur de Taqah, formation d'Ashawq, sultanat d'Oman). Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences de Paris, Série 2 311(12):1455-1460 [P. Coster/P. Coster]
52917		E. Gheerbrant, H. Thomas, J. Roger, S. Sen, and Z. Al-Sulaimani. 1993. Deux nouveaux primates dans l'Oligocène inférieur de Taqah (Sultanat d'Oman) : premiers adapiformes (Anchomomyini) de la Péninsule Arabique. Palaeovertebrata 22:141-196 [P. Coster/P. Coster]
52910		E. Gheerbrant, H. Thomas, S. Sen and Z. Al-Sulaimani. 1995. Nouveau primate Oligopithecinae (Simiiformes) de l'Oligocène inférieur de Taqah, Sultanat d'Oman = New Oligopithecinae Primate (Simiiformes) from the early Oligocene of Taqah, Sultanate of Oman. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences de Paris, Série 2 321:425-432 [P. Coster/P. Coster]
58489		M. Pickford. 2015. Large ungulates from the basal Oligocene of Oman: 1 – Embrithopoda. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 30(1):33-42 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
52914		M. Pickford, H. Thomas, S. Sen, J. Roger, E. Gheerbrant and Z. Al-Sulaimani. 1994. Early Oligocene Hyracoidea (Mammalia) from Thaytiniti and Taqah, Dhofar Province, Sultanate of Oman. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 318:1385-1400 [P. Coster/P. Coster/P. Holroyd]
52912		B. Sigé, H. Thomas, S. Sen, E. Gheerbrant, and J. Roger, Z., and Al-Sulaimani. 1994. Les chiroptères de Taqah (Oligocène inférieur, Sultanat d'Oman): Premier inventaire systématique. Munchner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 26:35-48 [P. Coster/P. Coster/M. Uhen]
52911		H. Thomas, J. Roger, S. Sen, C. Bourdillon-de-Grissac, and Z. Al-Sulaimani. 1989. Découverte de Vertébrés fossiles dans l'Oligocène inférieur du Dhofar (Sultanat d'Oman). Geobios 22(1):101-120 [P. Coster/P. Coster/P. Holroyd]
58406		H. Thomas, J. Roger, S. Sen, J. Dejax, M. Schuler, Z. Al-Sulaimani, C. Bourdillon Griassac, G. Breton, F. Broin, G. Camoin, H. Cappetta, R.-P. Carriol, C. Cavelier, C. Chaix, J.-Y. Crochet, G. Farjanel, M. Gayet, E. Gheerbrant, A. Lauriat-Rage, D. Noel, and M. Pickford. 1991. Essai de reconstitution des milieux de sédimentation et de vie des primates anthropoides de l'Oligocene de Taqah (Dhofar, Sultanat d'Oman). Bulletin de la Societe géologique de France 162(4):713-724 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
52916		H. Thomas, J. Roger, M. Pickford, E. Gheerbrant, Z. Al-Sulaimani and S. Al-Busaidi. 1999. Oligocene-Miocene terrestrial vertebrates in the southern Arabian peninsula (Sultanate of Oman) and their geodynamic and palaeogeographic settings. In P. J. Whybrow and A. Hill (eds.), Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia 430-442 [P. Coster/P. Coster/M. Uhen]
52913		H. Thomas, S. Sen, J. Roger and Z. Al-Sulaimani. 1991. The discovery of Moeripthecus markgrafi Schlosser (Propliopithecidae, Anthropoidea, Primates) in the Ashawq Formation (Early Oligocene of Dhofar Province, Sultanate of Oman). Journal of Human Evolution 20:33-49 [P. Coster/P. Coster/P. Wagner]