(9) Kuh-e-Nayband, Bidestan Member (Triassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (32.4° N, 57.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.9° S, 43.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bidestan Member (Nayband Formation), Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• Lime sandstone bed in the upper part of the Bidestan-Member, just beneath the Megalodon beds.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 49323: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 13.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon "sp. A" Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
sp. A
 Myalinida - Mysidiellidae
Mysidiella imago n. sp. Hautmann 2001 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) cf. tommasii Wohrmann and Koken 1892 oyster
some fragments
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia (Cultriopsis) canalis Hautmann 2001 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Indopecten serraticosta Bittner 1899 scallop
10 fragments
Indopecten glaber Douglas 1929 scallop
Indopecten uninodosus Hautmann 2001 scallop
 Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
Palaeocardita iranica Hautmann 2001 clam
var. multiradiata
Palaeocardita stoecklini Hautmann 2001 clam
 Unionida - Pachycardiidae
Weixiella lutensis Hautmann 2001 clam