Jebel Rawdah, upper beds - Facies 4, beds 20-21 (Cretaceous of Oman)

Where: Oman (24.9° N, 56.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.3° N, 46.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Simsima Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; mudstone and sandstone

• bioclastic sands

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. B. Smith, N. J. Morris, A. S. Gale and B. R. Rosen. 1995. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) echinoid-mollusc-coral assemblages and palaeoenvironments from a Tethyan carbonate platform succession, northern Oman Mountains. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 119:155-168 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151656: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Cunnolitidae
Cunnolites sp. Gagnebin 1772 stony coral
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Umboniinae indet. Adams and Adams 1854 top snail
 Mesogastropoda -
Strombacea sp. Rafinesque 1815 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Ampullina sp. FĂ©russac 1822 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
Campanile sp. Fischer 1884 snail
 Neogastropoda -
Neogastropoda indet. Thiele 1929 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Echinoidea
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Coenholectypus inflatus Cotteau and Gauthier 1895 sea urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Hemipneustes compressus Noetling 1897 sea urchin
 Cassiduloida -
Pygurostoma sp. Cotteau and Gauthier 1895 sea urchin
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
 Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae
Zuffardia sp. Checchia-Rispoli 1917 sand dollar
Faujasia sp. sand dollar
Petalobrissus rawdahensis Smith 1995 sand dollar
Petalobrissus cf. linguiformis Peron and Gauthier 1881 sand dollar
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Arnaudaster sp. sea urchin
 Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Globator sp. Agassiz 1840 sea urchin