Kuh-e Asmari (Miocene of Iran)

Where: Khuzestan, Iran (31.7° N, 49.6° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 47.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• upper part of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Kühn. 1933. Das Becken von Isfahan-Saidabad und seine altmiocäne Korallenfauna [The Isfahan-Saidabad Basin and its Miocene coral fauna]. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 79:143-221 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87127: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
"Orbicella defrancei" = Heliastrea defrancei
"Orbicella defrancei" = Heliastrea defrancei Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Orbicella guettardi, "Orbicella eggenburgensis" = Tarbellastraea eggenburgensis, "Solenastrea ellisiana" = Tarbellastraea ellisiana
"Orbicella eggenburgensis" = Tarbellastraea eggenburgensis Kühn 1925 stony coral
"Solenastrea ellisiana" = Tarbellastraea ellisiana Defrance 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites cf. maigensis Kühn 1925 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
"Balanophyllia cylindrica" = Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica
"Balanophyllia cylindrica" = Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica Michelotti 1838 stony coral