Julfa Section, Bed 8, Kuh-e Ali Bashi (Permian of Iran)

Where: Iran (38.9° N, 45.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.0° S, 41.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gnishik Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• 6.5 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, carbonaceous limestone

• Limestone, dark-gray, fine-grained crystalline, bituminous, containing

•thin shale partings.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected by D.L. Stepanov, F. Golshani, J. Stöcklin, B. Hamzepour in 1967

Primary reference: D. L. Stepanov, F. Golshani, and J. Stöcklin. 1969. Upper Permian and Permian-Triassic boundary in north Iran. Geological Survey of Iran Report 12:1-72 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118131: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophontidae indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
Pachyphloia ovata Lange 1925
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Hemigordiopsis sp. Reichel 1945
Hemigordius sp. Schubert 1908
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae