Chalheghareh (Miocene of Iran)
Where: Iran (33.8° N, 51.7° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 50.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Qom Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; calcareous marl
• Cross-bedded pelletal sandstones with wave-ripples which follow two to three metres above the coral horizon indicate shallow subtidal areas.
• [...], this fauna is of very low diversity.
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NHMW
Primary reference: F. Schuster. 2002. Early Miocene scleractinian corals from the Qom and Asmari formations (central and southwest Iran). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg (239)129-161 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79646: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 17.03.2008
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Goniopora turonensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |