Also known as Reef 494
Where: Iran (33.9° N, 57.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.5° S, 44.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Qal'eh Dokhtar Formation, Bathonian to Bathonian (168.3 - 163.5 Ma)
• bed 26, 170 m above the base of the formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: E. Flügel. 1966. Mitteljurassische Korallen vom Ostrand der Großen Salzwüste (Shotori-Kette, Iran) [Middle Jurassic corals from the eastern margin of the Great Salt Desert (Shotori Range, Iran)]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 126(1):46-91 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85446: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.12.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Actinastrea pentagonalis Goldfuss 1829 stony coral | |
Epistreptophyllum cf. oldhami, ? Epistreptophyllum sp., "Metethmos griesbachi" = Epistreptophyllum griesbachi
Epistreptophyllum cf. oldhami stony coral
? Epistreptophyllum sp. Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral
"Metethmos griesbachi" = Epistreptophyllum griesbachi Gregory 1900 stony coral | |
Montlivaltia "sp. 1" Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Isastrea explanata Münster 1829 stony coral | |
"Microsolena variolata" = Microsolena agariciformis, Microsolena subturbinata, Chomatoseris iranensis n. sp., Dimorpharaea sp., Dimorpharaea cf. lineata
"Microsolena variolata" = Microsolena agariciformis Etallon 1859 stony coral
Microsolena subturbinata Gregory 1900 stony coral
Chomatoseris iranensis n. sp. Flügel 1966 stony coral
Dimorpharaea sp. de Fromentel 1861 stony coral
Dimorpharaea cf. lineata Eichwald 1865 stony coral | |
"Comoseris jumarense" = Collignonastraea jumarensis
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Cyathophora kobyi Krasnov 1964 stony coral | |
Stylina kachensis Gregory 1900 stony coral | |
Axosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |