Rostam Kola, RK-09 (Jurassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.7° N, 53.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.4° S, 47.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: hypselum ammonoid zone, Lar Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Hypselum zone, Berrense subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified chert

• shallow and well-oxygenated carbonate platform
• medium-bedded limestones with nodular chert

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: H. Parent, G. Melendez, and M. Falahatgar. 2012. Oxfordian ammonites from Rostam Kola, northern East Alborz, North Iran. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 263(2):133-142 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132151: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae