Where: Iran (32.0° N, 50.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 47.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Asmari Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Asmari Limestone, which regionally underlies the Lower Fars Fm. AGE: Early Miocene, on the basis of Burdigalian index macrofossils. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably G.E. Pilgrim and J.A. Douglas, c. 1900's, 1920's. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possibly Geological Suyrvey of India, or British Museum of Natural History..
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79063: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2008
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Amussiopecten) burdigalensis" = Amussiopecten, "Pecten (Oopecten) gigas" = Oopecten gigas
"Pecten (Amussiopecten) burdigalensis" = Amussiopecten scallop
"Pecten (Oopecten) gigas" = Oopecten gigas Schlotheim 1813 scallop |