. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. Bull. nat. Hist. Mus. Lond. (Geol.) 51(2):275-276 Issued 30 November 1995 Maastrichtian brachiopods from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region ELLIS F. OWEN Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD INTRODUCTION Brachiopods were particularly rare in the Maastrichtian sedi- ments of the United Arab Emirates-Oman borders region. Despite intensive collecting only four specimens were found, all coming from the lower Loftusia-hch beds of the Qahlah Formation exposed at Jebel Huwayyah (see
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. Bull. nat. Hist. Mus. Lond. (Geol.) 51(2):275-276 Issued 30 November 1995 Maastrichtian brachiopods from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region ELLIS F. OWEN Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD INTRODUCTION Brachiopods were particularly rare in the Maastrichtian sedi- ments of the United Arab Emirates-Oman borders region. Despite intensive collecting only four specimens were found, all coming from the lower Loftusia-hch beds of the Qahlah Formation exposed at Jebel Huwayyah (see introduction for locality details). These four specimens belong to a hitherto undescribed genus of terebratulid. SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIONS Class TEREBRATULID A Waagen, 1883 Suborder TEREBRATULIDINA Waagen, 1883 Superfamily TEREBRATULACEA Gray, 1840 Family TEREBRATULIDAE Gray, 1840 Genus PSEUDOGIBBITHYRIS nov. TYPE species. Pseudogibbithyris arabica sp. nov. Diagnosis. Medium-sized uniplicate terebratulid, slightly longer than wide, elongate-oval in general outline and evenly biconvex. Umbo short, beak suberect, foraman small, perme- sothyrid. Cardinal process present, brachial loop simple. Remarks. Pseudogibbithyris differs from Gibbithyris and Concinnithyris from the European Upper Chalk (Senonian), which it resembles in external morphological features, in its. Fig. 1. Pseudogibbithyris arabica gen. et sp. nov., holotype, BMNH BF47; Jebel Huwayyah, section 2, beds 3-6. A, dorsal; B, lateral; C, anterior views: all x 1. distinctly flat bifid cardinal process, deep hinge-trough and short, triangular hinge-plates. Pseudogibbithyris arabica sp. nov. Figs 1, 2 Diagnosis. As for genus. Types. Holotype, BMNH BF47; paratypes BMNH BF44-46. Description. The dorsal valve is dominated by a low median fold bounded by faint carinae originating from a point midway between the umbonal area of the valve and the anterior margin of the shell. A corresponding shallow sulcus in the ventral valve fo
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