Profil Parvadeh I, Howz-e-Khan-Member, PAR-I 392m (Triassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (33.0° N, 57.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 44.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Base of Howz-e-Khan-Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• The Howz-e-Khan-Member consists mainly of siliciclastics (siltstone and fine sandstone), carbonates are more common than in the other members of the Nayband Formation.

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 49694: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 23.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Pterocardiidae
"Vietnamicardium aff. altum" = Tulongocardium
"Vietnamicardium aff. altum" = Tulongocardium clam