W of Kuh-e-Echellon: Bathonian - Middle Callovian, Iran

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815
1 specimen
Favia sp. B
    = "Favia" sp. Oken 1815
Kiessling 2008
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae
Axosmilia sessilis (Milaschewitsch 1876)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena ornata Koby 1887
Chomatoseris iranensis Flügel 1966
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria mettensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
see common names

Geography
Country:Iran State/province:Tabas Area
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 56.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.4° South, 42.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Key time interval:Bathonian - Middle Callovian
Age range of interval:168.20000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Baghamshah
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine lithified "siliciclastic"
Secondary lithology: lithified marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: thick package of fine -grained siliciclastics with a variable amount of marl
Environment:basinal (carbonate)
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: unfossiliferous basinal facies
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:41411
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Apel, W. Kiessling
Modifier:M. Apel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-14 05:09:56 Last modified:2004-07-15 10:11:04
Access level:database members Released:2004-07-14 05:09:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11049. D. K. Pandey and F. T. Fürsich. 2003. Jurassic corals of east-central Iran. Beringeria 32:1-138 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

26431 W. Kiessling. 2008. New opinions on coral taxonomy. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]