Sheikh (Cretaceous of Iran)

Where: Iran (37.6° N, 57.5° E: paleocoordinates 14.7° S, 53.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum ammonoid zone, Aitamir Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Ammonites occur predominantly at the top of the sandstone beds, at the transition into the overlying shales

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, J. Lehmann, and M. Wilmsen. 2014. Late Albian ammonites from the Aitamir Formation (Koppeh Dagh, northeast Iran). Cretaceous Research 50:72-88 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174590: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Callihoplites cf. tetragonus, Callihoplites cf. variabilis
Callihoplites cf. tetragonus Seeley 1865 ammonite
Callihoplites cf. variabilis Spath 1927 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Pseudhelicoceras robertianum
Pseudhelicoceras robertianum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite