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

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