(7) West of Howz-e-Khan, Kadir Member (Triassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (32.2° N, 57.3° E: paleocoordinates 11.4° S, 43.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kadir Member (Nayband Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• The Kadir Member consists mainly of carbonaceous siliciclastics with some carbonate horizons in the upper part.

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 49571: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Hoernesia shaniorum oyster
some fragments
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Homomya sublariana Krumbeck 1913 clam
 Cardiida - Pterocardiidae
"Vietnamicardium aff. altum" = Tulongocardium
"Vietnamicardium aff. altum" = Tulongocardium clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Gruenewaldia sp. von Wöhrmann 1889 clam
some dozen fragments