Northwest of Profil "Aliabad", Howz-e-Khan-Member, 3l: Rhaetian, Iran

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Trigonucula goniocostata Hautmann 2001
10 individuals at this locality (4 different horizons)
Palaeonucula sundaica
131 individuals at this locality (7 different horizons)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella subzelima
5 individuals at this locality (3 different horizons)
Nuculana (Nuculana) aff. perlonga
1 individual
Nuculana (Nuculana) naibandensis Hautmann 2001
151 individuals at this locality (7 different horizons)
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia (Modestella) zlambachensis (Haas 1909)
3 individuals
recombined as Trigonia (Primatrigonia) zlambachiensis
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Gruenewaldia iranica Hautmann 2001
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Praeconia matura Hautmann 2001
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Fimbriidae indet. Nicol 1950
2 individuals
spelled with current rank as Fimbriinae
gen. nov. sp. A
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
Palaeocardita iranica Hautmann 2001
19 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) sp. Branson 1942
1 individual
spelled with current rank as Cosmetodon
sp. B
Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) mediodepressum Krumbeck 1913
4 individuals at this locality (3 different horizons)
Parallelodon tectum n. sp. Hautmann 2001
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Cassianellidae
Cassianella inaequiradiata
88 individuals at 4 localities (14 different horizons)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
? Gervillaria cf. falcata
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Umbrostrea emamii Hautmann 2001
82 individuals at 5 localities (14 different horizons)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Antiquilima hians Hautmann 2001
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Prospondylidae
Persia monstrosa Repin 1996
72 individuals at 6 localities (14 different horizons)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Pseudoplacunopsis asymmetrica
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Terquemiidae
Newaagia stocklini Repin 1996
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Indopecten serraticosta (Bittner 1899)
2 individuals
Chlamys (Chlamys) favrii
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) schafhaeutli
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Iran
Coordinates: 32.5° North, 57.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.6° South, 43.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Rhaetian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Rhaetian
Age range of interval:208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nayband Member:Howz-e-Khan
Local bed:3l
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Lithology description: The Howz-e-Khan-Member consists mainly of siliciclastics (siltstone and fine sandstone), carbonates are more common than in the other members of the Nayband Formation.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Specimen housed at the Palaeontologisches Institut der Universitat Wurzburg (PIW)
Metadata
Database number:48971
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-05 05:50:51 Last modified:2005-04-26 07:31:21
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-05 05:50:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13062. M. Hautmann. 2001. Die Muschelfauna der Nayband-Formation (Obertrias, Nor - Rhät) des östlichen Zentraliran. Beringeria 29:3-181 [M. Aberhan/M. Aberhan/M. Aberhan]