Elikah River section IR169, Alborz mountains (Permian of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.2° N, 51.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 44.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nesen Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Angiolini and L. Carabelli. 2010. Upper Permian brachiopods from the Nesen Formation, north Iran. Special Papers in Palaeontology 84:41-90 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125578: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
? Gruntallina sp. Waterhouse and Gupta 1986
Strophomenata
 Productida -
 Productida - Tschernyschewiidae
Tschernyschewia typica Stoyanow 1910
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Orthothetina persica Schellwien 1900