Ratawi-Basrah, depth 2520-2525a (Cretaceous of Iraq)

Where: Iraq (30.5° N, 47.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.5° N, 38.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mauddud Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. S. Al-Sayyab and M. U. Mohmmed. 1991. Middle Cretaceous algal flora from the Mauddud Formation, Ratawi field, south Iraq. Iraqi Journal of Science 32(3) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 148366: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Boueina sp. Toula 1883
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
"Permocalculus elliotti" = Trinocladus elliotti
"Permocalculus elliotti" = Trinocladus elliotti Johnson 1965
 Dasycladales -
Acicularia sp. d'Archiac 1843