DPP-2010-1 (Oligocene of Oman)

Where: Dhofar, Oman (17.0° N, 54.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 47.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shizar Member (Ashawq Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• near the base of the Shizar Member of the Ashawq Formation; earliest Oligocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2010

Primary reference: E. R. Seiffert, S. Nasir, A. Al-Harthy, J. R. Groenke, B. P. Kraatz, N. J. Stevens, and A. R. Al-Sayigh. 2012. Diversity in the later Paleogene proboscidean radiation: a small barytheriid from the Oligocene of Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman. Naturwissenschaften 99:133-141 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179726: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 28.06.2016, edited by Pauline Coster

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Arabicolaria sp.
Bed B, Omanitherium type locality
Omanitopsis sp.
Bed B, Omanitherium type locality
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides sp. Brongniart 1810 horn snail
Bed B, Omanitherium type locality
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullariidae
Pila sp. Röding 1798 apple snail
Bed B, Omanitherium type locality
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Bothriogenys gorringei Andrews and Beadnell 1902 anthracothere
Bed B, Omanitherium type locality
 Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae
"Arsinoitherium andrewsi" = Arsinoitherium zitteli
"Arsinoitherium andrewsi" = Arsinoitherium zitteli Beadnell 1902 placental
Bed B, Omanitherium type locality
 Proboscidea - Barytheriidae
Omanitherium dhofarensis n. gen. n. sp.
Omanitherium dhofarensis n. gen. n. sp. Seiffert et al. 2012 proboscidean
SQU-290 - holotype