ammonites
Buday'ah Section, unit 2 (Permian of Oman)

Where: Oman (23.7° N, 56.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° S, 52.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buday'ah Formation, Capitanian (265.0 - 259.0 Ma)

• Thickness varies laterally from 0 to 1.2 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, red lime mudstone

• Deposited on pillow basalts in deep ocean basin
• Typical condensed cephalopod pelagic limestone of the Hallstatt Facies

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Repository: not stated

Primary reference: A. Baud, S. Richoz, B. Beauchamp, F. Cordey, S. Grasby, C. M. Henderson, L. Krystyn and A. Nicora. 2012. The Buday'ah Formation, Sultanate of Oman: a Middle Permian to Early Triassic oceanic record of the Neotethys and the late Induan microsphere bloom. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 43:130-144 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127259: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.05.2012

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