Where: Iran (26.6° N, 55.9° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 55.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Fars Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from the Upper Fars Fm, which regionally overlies the Middle Fars Fm. AGE: Pliocene, on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. Assigned by enterer to Early Pliocene on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably G.E. Pilgrim, c. 1900'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 79068: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2008

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