Elikah River section IR213, 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: open shallow subtidal; lithified, nodular, cherty/siliceous lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. B. Forel, S. Crasquin, A. Chitnarin, L. Angiolini, and M. Gaetani. 2015. Precocious sexual dimorphism and the Lilliput effect in Neo-Tethyan Ostracoda (Crustacea) through the Permian-Triassic boundary. Palaeontology 58:409-454 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168927: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Metacopida - Rishonidae
Samarella victori Crasquin 2010 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Parahollinella visnyoensis Kozur 1985 ostracod
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina ? nesenensis Crasquin 2015 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Basslerella superarella Crasquin 2015 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Fabalicypris parva Wang 1978 ostracod
 Podocopa -
? Eumiraculum desmaresae Forel 2013 ostracod