Zargar area, Section A, MFT4_Coral reef (boundstone), calcareous unit (Eocene of Iran)

Also known as Reef 4395

Where: Iran (32.7° N, 59.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.3° N, 56.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lut platform Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone and wackestone

• the calcareous unit is composed of thick limestones (wackestone)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: S. A. Babazadeh and M. Alavi. 2013. Paleoenvironmental model for Early Eocene larger benthic foraminiferal deposits from south Birjand region, east Iran. Revue de Paleobiologie 32(1):223-233 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226724: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.07.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida -
Miliolida indet. Lankester 1885
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulites globulus Leymerie 1846
Assilina laminosa Gill 1953
 Nummulitacea - Discocyclinidae
Discocyclina dispansa Sowerby 1840
Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897