DICKINSARTELLA FAUNA FROM THE SAIWAN FORMATION (OMAN): A BIVALVE FAUNA TESTIFYING TO THE LATE SAKMARIAN (EARLY PERMIAN) CLIMATIC AMELIORATION ALONG THE NORTH-EASTERN GONDWANAN FRINGE.
The transitional faunas of the Permian Huqf succession of Oman make it one of the key-sections for the intercalibration of Early to Middle Permian biostratigraphical scales.The abundance of fossils improved the knowledge of some marine faunas which populated the North-Eastern Gondwanan fringe during times of climatic changes in the Permian.A Sterli