Also known as Reef 653
Where: Iran (26.0° N, 61.0° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 60.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gashr Ghand Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,
• Only corals described
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 25256: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 05.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Plesiastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Acanthastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral
Seriatopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
"Parascolymia sp." = Scolymia
"Parascolymia sp." = Scolymia Haime 1852 stony coral | |
Oulophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Anisocoenia sp. Reuss 1867 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Hydnophora sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral | |
Trochosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Dichocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Pattalophyllia sp. d'Achiardi 1867 stony coral | |
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral |