Where: Oman (24.3° N, 55.8° E: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 46.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Qahlah Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• middle part of the formation, "Loftusia beds"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, silty limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: M. Gameil. 2005. Palaeoecological implications of Upper Cretaceous solitary corals, United Arab Emirates/Oman Borders. Revue de Paleobiologie 24(2):515-532 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67455: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Nubeculinella sp. Cushman 1930 | |
Foraminifera | |
Orbitoides media d'Archiac 1837 | |
Anthozoa | |
? Epistreptophyllum sp. Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral | |
Trochosmilia sp., "Ellipsosmilia sp." = Trochosmilia (Ellipsosmilia)
Trochosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Ellipsosmilia sp." = Trochosmilia (Ellipsosmilia) d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
Phragmosmilia lineata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Aulosmilia aspera Sowerby 1832 stony coral
Phyllosmilia transiens stony coral | |
"Smilotrochus jacobi" = Smilotrochus milneri, Trochocyathus microphyes
"Smilotrochus jacobi" = Smilotrochus milneri Gregory 1898 stony coral
Trochocyathus microphyes Felix 1903 stony coral | |
"Eupsammia narindensis" = Balanophyllia caulifera
"Eupsammia narindensis" = Balanophyllia caulifera Conrad 1848 stony coral | |
Cunnolites profundus Oppenheim 1930 stony coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) dossantoi" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) dossantosi
"Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) dossantoi" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) dossantosi Maury 1930 ammonite | |
Libycoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite | |
Nostoceras (Nostoceras) sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite | |
Lewyites ambindense Collignon 1971 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Campanile sp. Fischer 1884 snail | |
Strombus incerta conch | |
Aporrhais dutrugei Coquand 1862 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Agerostrea sp. Vialov 1936 oyster | |
"Pycnodonte vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis, "Exogyra olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis
"Pycnodonte vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
"Exogyra olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster | |
Mytilus saidi mussel | |
Vaccinites sp. Fischer 1887 rudist | |
Dictyoptychus sp. Douvillé 1905 rudist | |
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin | |
Pygurostoma sp. Cotteau and Gauthier 1895 sea urchin | |
Globator sp. Agassiz 1840 sea urchin | |
Orthopsis sp. Cotteau 1864 sea urchin |