Where: United Arab Emirates (25.8° N, 56.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 2.2° N, 54.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Ghalilah Formation), Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)

• bed 9, 50 m thick

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: M. H. M. Metwally and M. S. M. Ali. 1992. The Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Elphinstone Group, western part of the Musandam Peninsula, United Arab Emirates. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte (5)257-266 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101400: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2010

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