Elikah River section IR207, Alborz mountains (Permian of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.2° N, 51.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 44.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nesen Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, cherty/siliceous lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. B. Forel, S. Crasquin, A. Chitnarin, L. Angiolini, and M. Gaetani. 2015. Precocious sexual dimorphism and the Lilliput effect in Neo-Tethyan Ostracoda (Crustacea) through the Permian-Triassic boundary. Palaeontology 58:409-454 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168923: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Acratiidae
? Acratia pervagata Forel 2015 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Bythocypris "sp. 1" Brady 1880 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia urodeloformis Chen 1987 ostracod
Bairdia cf. cahuzaci Forel 2011 ostracod
Bairdia cf. wailiensis Crasquin-Soleau 2006 ostracod
Fabalicypris parva Wang 1978 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Basslerella superarella Crasquin 2015 ostracod
 Podocopida - Microcheilinellidae
Microcheilinella rectodorsata Forel 2010 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Spinocypris "sp. 1" Kozur 1971 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Paraparchitidae
Samarella victori Crasquin 2010 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
? Kirkbya "sp. 1" Jones 1859 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Knightinidae
Knightina cf. bullaensis Crasquin 2008 ostracod
 Leperditellocopida - Aparchitidae
Cyathus elliptica Shi 1987 ostracod