Also known as Reef 656
Where: Iran (26.5° N, 57.9° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 57.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dehirdan Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified rudstone and lithified grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. McCall, B. Rosen, and J. Darrell. 1994. Carbonate deposition in accretionary prism settings: Early Miocene coral limestones and corals of the Makran Mountain Range in southern Iran. Facies 31:141-178 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25254: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 05.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Favia laxa" = Dipsastraea laxa, "Hydnophora insignis" = Monticulastraea insignis, "Hydnophora regularis" = Hydnophora rudis
"Favia laxa" = Dipsastraea laxa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
"Hydnophora insignis" = Monticulastraea insignis Duncan 1880 stony coral
"Hydnophora regularis" = Hydnophora rudis Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
Progyrosmilia cf. vacua Gerth 1923 stony coral | |
Favia sindiana stony coral | |
Pachyseris affinis Duncan 1880 stony coral | |
Porites (Synaraea) delicatissima stony coral | |
Acropora duncani Reuss 1867 stony coral | |
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Plesiastrea fungiformis Kühn 1933 stony coral | |
Florideophyceae | |
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897 | |
? Corallina sp. Linnaeus 1758
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837 |