Qaleh Dokhtar, bed 26 (Jurassic to of Iran)

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

• 15 m thick black-grey coral unit intercalated in green-grey marly shales

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea pentagonalis Goldfuss 1829 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
? Epistreptophyllum sp. Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral
"Metethmos griesbachi" = Epistreptophyllum griesbachi Gregory 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia "sp. 1" Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Isastrea explanata Münster 1829 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
"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
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Comoseris jumarense" = Collignonastraea jumarensis
"Comoseris jumarense" = Collignonastraea jumarensis Gregory 1900 stony coral
subsp. irregularis
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Cyathophora kobyi Krasnov 1964 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina kachensis Gregory 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae
Axosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral