Al-Khod Conglomerate Explained

Al-Khod Conglomerate
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Maastrichtian
Period:	Maastrichtian
Country:	Oman

The Al-Khod Conglomerate is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Oman. Dinosaur remains belonging to ornithischians, theropods and sauropods are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus, which belong to one of very few records of dinosaur remains currently known from Oman.^[1]

Fossil content

• Bivalvia indet.
• Corbiculidae indet.
• Gastropoda indet.
• Hadrosauridae indet.
• Neosuchia indet.
• Crocodyliformes indet.^[2]
• Ostreidae indet.
• Ornithischia indet.
• Ornithopoda indet.
• Sauropoda indet.
• Testudines indet.

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See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
• List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils

References

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .

Notes and References

1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
2. Nicholl . Cecily S. C. . Hunt . Eloise S. E. . Ouarhache . Driss . Mannion . Philip D. . October 2021 . A second peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Mid-Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco and the diversity of Gondwanan notosuchians outside South America . Royal Society Open Science . en . 8 . 10 . 211254 . 10.1098/rsos.211254 . 2054-5703 . 8511751 . 34659786. 2021RSOS....811254N .
3. Nolan S. C., Skelton P. W., et al (1990) Maastrichtian to early Tertiary stratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Central and Northern Oman Mountains, In A. H. F. Robertson, M. P. Searle, & A. C. Ries (eds.), The Geology and Tectonics of the Oman Region. Geological Society Special Publication. 49, 495-519