Where: Iran (36.4° N, 51.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 38.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• Assigned a Carnian age by Wiedmann. Other ammonoids from the succession include Megaphyllites sp., Juvavites sp., Cladiscites sp., and Placites sp., attributed to the Carnian and Norian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geologisch-Palaontologisches Institut, Georg-August Universitat, Gottingen

Primary reference: J. Wiedmann. 1970. Über den Ursprung der Neoammonoideen - das Problem einer Typogenese. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 63:923-1020 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173638: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2015

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