Taherabad, sequence Ce4 (Cretaceous of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.6° N, 60.1° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 65.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthoceras rhotomagense ammonoid zone, Aitamir Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• The lower Cenomanian succession is unconformably overlain by a 16-m-thick unit of sandstone and sandy shale, glauconitic in the upper part and containing lower middle Cenomanian ammonoids.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie (MMG) of the Senckenberg

•Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden (SNSD), Germany (repository AsK) and the institutional collection of the Payame Noor university, Mashad, Iran (PNu).

Primary reference: A. Mosavinia and M. Wilmsen. 2011. Cenomanian Acanthoceratoidea (Cretaceous Ammonoidea) from the Koppeh Dagh, NE Iran: taxonomy and stratigraphic implications. Acta Geologica Polonica 61:175-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174335: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Acanthoceras rhotomagense Brongniart 1822 ammonite
Cunningtoniceras cunningtoni Sharpe 1855 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Forbesiceratidae
Forbesiceras baylissi Wright and Kennedy 1984 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Turrilites scheuchzerianus Bosc 1801 ammonite
Turrilites costatus Lamarck 1801 ammonite