Elikah River section IR216, 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: Elikah Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal limestone

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 168930: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Bythocypris "sp. 1" Brady 1880 ostracod
 Podocopida - Acratiidae
? Acratia pervagata Forel 2015 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia "sp. 5" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia wailiensis Crasquin-Soleau 2006 ostracod
Bairdia cf. subcontracta Chen 1987 ostracod
Bairdia cf. bassoni Crasquin 2010 ostracod
Bairdia cf. cahuzaci Forel 2011 ostracod
Bairdiacypris "sp. A" Bradfield 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Basslerella superarella Crasquin 2015 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Callicythere "sp. 1" Wei 1981 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Knightinidae
Knightina cf. bullaensis Crasquin 2008 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Paraparchitidae
Shemonaella "sp. 1" Sohn 1971 ostracod