Northwest of Profil "Aliabad", Howz-e-Sheikh-Member, 3c (Triassic to of Iran)

Where: Iran (32.5° N, 57.4° E: paleocoordinates 12.3° S, 43.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Howz-e-Sheikh Member (Nayband Formation), Sevatian to Sevatian (212.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone and lithified, fine-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Specimen housed at the Palaeontologisches Institut der Universitat Wurzburg (PIW)

Primary reference: M. Hautmann. 2001. Die Muschelfauna der Nayband-Formation (Obertrias, Nor - Rhät) des östlichen Zentraliran. Beringeria 29:3-181 [M. Aberhan/M. Aberhan/M. Aberhan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49031: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Cardiida - Pterocardiidae
"Vietnamicardium aff. altum" = Tulongocardium
"Vietnamicardium aff. altum" = Tulongocardium clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Anatinellidae
"Cercomya cf. suessi" = Anatina suessi
"Cercomya cf. suessi" = Anatina suessi Oppel 1858 clam
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
Cercomya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam
 Pholadomyida - Chaenomyidae
? Chaenomya "sp. A" Meek 1864 clam
sp. A