Dorud IR33, Jaje Rud Valley (Permian of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.0° N, 51.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° S, 55.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dorud Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• High energy near-shore environment under the action of waves.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Angiolini and M. H. Stephenson. 2008. Early Permian brachiopods and palynomorphs from the Dorud Group, Alborz Mountains, north Iran: evidence of their palaeobiogeographic affinities. Fossils and Strata 54:117-132 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97250: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Larispirifer fantinisestinii Angiolini and Stephenson 2008
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Costispinifera sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus dorotheevi Fredericks 1932