Lordegan, Zagros Mountains (Miocene of Iran)

Where: Iran (31.3° N, 51.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 48.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asmari Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• A Burdigalian age for the section is derived from the presence of planktonic foraminifers [...]

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and calcareous marl

• The Lordegan Section is composed of a regression-transgression-regression sequence with limestones at the base, limestone/marly limestones-couplets in the middle part and again limestones at the top.

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 79649: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 17.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp.
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
sp. 3
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cyphastrea sp., Caulastrea sp., Tarbellastraea reussiana
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Caulastrea sp. Dana 1846 stony coral
sp. 2
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea sp.
Solenastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea schweinfurthi
Montastrea schweinfurthi Pratz 1883 stony coral