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The Mesopotamian Paleontology researches..
The Age Of The Mauddud Formation
Abdullah Shaker Al-Sayyab
Department of Geology, College of Science, University of
Baghdad
Mamoun Ubaid Mohammed
Department of Surveying, Technical College - Baghdad
Abstract
The age of the Mauddud Limestone Formation revised and
amended to be Late Albian-Early Cenomanian on the
account of the presence of groups of fossils of a short
stratigraphic range after careful analysis of the flora
and fauna present in the studied samples and comparison
with other pats of the world. These guide fossils are:-
Orbitolina cf. concava (LAMARCK),
Orbitolina cf. discoidia GRASS,
Orbitolina concava sefini HENSON,
Orbitolina kurdica HENSON,
Iraqia simplex HENSON, Favusella
washitensis (CARSEY), Nezzazata
simplex OMARA, Ovalveolina ovum
d'ORBIGNY, Permocalculus irenae ELLIOT,
Marinella yugoslavica MASLOV,
Boueina cf. pygmea PIA,
Neomeris cretacea STEINMAN, Neomeris
pfenderae KONISHI & EPIS and
Lithophyllum shebae ELLIOT.
Iraqi J. Sci., v. 25, nos. 1-2, pp. 47-55, 1984
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