Lower Fars Fm: Early/Lower Miocene, Iran

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea latimarginata Vredenburg 1908
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Clausinella persica Cox 1936
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Iran
Coordinates: 29.6° North, 52.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° North, 49.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lower Fars
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Asmari Limestone, which regionally overlies the Asmari Limestone, and is overlain by the Middle Fars Fm. AGE: Early Miocene, on the basis of macrofossil similarity to Burdigalian and Upper Gaj strata. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal "gypsum beds" of formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gypsiferous lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone, gypsum beds, . LITHIFICATION: Lithified on the basis of figured specimens from adjacent beds.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow subtidal carbonate environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: G.E. Pilgrim, c. 1900's. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possibly Geological Suyrvey of India, or British Museum of Natural History.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Probably not exhaustive, but listing characteristic taxa. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature. Identifications by L. R. Cox (British Museum).
Metadata
Database number:79064
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-24 11:38:52 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-02-24 11:38:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26552. L. R. Cox. 1936. Fossil Mollusca from southern Persia (Iran) and Bahrein Island. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 22(2):1-67 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]