Taherabad section, 129 m level (Cretaceous to of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.6° N, 60.1° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° N, 72.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aitamir Formation, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• At the second glauconitic sandstone bed of the Aitamir Formation (=129 m level). E. clementianum occurs between the latest Aptian index ammonite Hypacanthoplites uhligi (at the 45 m level) and Hoplites (Hoplites) baylei (at the 290 m level), i.e., the middle to late Albian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Department of Geology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Primary reference: J. Sharifi, A. Tajika, A. Mohammadabadi and M. H. Tabari Abkuh. 2021. First discovery of nautilids from the Albian-Cenomanian succession of the Koppeh Dagh Basin, NE Iran. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140(14) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221575: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.08.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Eutrephoceras clementianum" = Eutrephoceras clementinum
"Eutrephoceras clementianum" = Eutrephoceras clementinum d'Orbigny 1840