Baghamshah 3: Early/Lower Bathonian, Iran

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Procerites sp. Siemiradzki 1898
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Morphoceratidae
Morphoceras multiforme Arkell 1951
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma subcardiiforme
Ctenostreon sp. Eichwald 1862
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella cf. acuta (Sowerby 1826)
Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Ceratomyopsis sp. Cossmann 1915
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya alduini (Brongniart 1821)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya sp. Sandberger 1864
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastraea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
original and current combination Isastrea
see common names

Geography
Country:Iran
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 57.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.1° South, 42.6° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Bathonian
Age range of interval:168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Baghamshah
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: base of Baghamshah Fm, Zigzag zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified argillaceous,calcareous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils,ichnofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:37565
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:F. Fursich Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-03-16 23:42:45 Last modified:2004-03-17 01:42:46
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-16 23:42:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10049. H.M. Kluyver, R. Tirrul, P.N. Chance, G.W. Johns, and H.M. Meixner. 1978. Explanatory text of the Naybandan Quadrangle Map 1:250,000. Explanatory text of the Naybandan Quadrangle Map 1:250,000 1-143 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]