(10) 8 km west of Nayband, Howz-e-Khan-Member (Triassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (32.4° N, 57.4° E: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 43.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Howz-e-Khan Member (Nayband Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• Lime sandstone bed

• 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 49668: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 23.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Schafhaeutlia sphaerioides clam
var. magna var. nov.