Dorasham, Julfa Fm, Dzhulfa Gorge, Arax River (Permian of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (39.0° N, 45.5° E: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 40.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Julfa Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and T. G. Sarycheva. 1965. The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 108:1-431 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113611: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Metacoceras dorashamense n. sp. Shimansky 1965
 Nautilida - Grypoceratidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
"Synocladia rigida" = Synocladiella rigida
"Synocladia rigida" = Synocladiella rigida Morozova 1965
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Polypora darashamensis Nikiforova 1933