Where: United Arab Emirates (25.7° N, 55.8° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 46.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Simsima Formation, Maastrichtian to Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. C. Baron-Szabo. 2000. Late Campanian-Maastrichtian corals from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London (Geology) 56(2):91-131 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12766: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 05.12.2001, edited by Uta Merkel