Ghorghoreh: Late/Upper Albian, Iran
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Hoplitidae
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Callihoplites cf. tetragonus
(Seeley 1865)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Placenticeratidae
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Placenticeras grossouvrei
Semenov 1899
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| recombined as Karamaites grossouvrei | ||||||||||
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? Hengestites sp.
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Geography
| Country: | Iran |
| Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 60.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.8° North, 66.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Altitude: | 942 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian | Ammonoid zone: | Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum |
| Age range of interval: | 106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Aitamir |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" |
| Lithology description: Ammonites occur predominantly at the top of the sandstone beds, at the transition into the overlying shales | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie (MMG) of the Senckenberg
Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden (SNSD), Germany (repository AsK) and the institutional collection of the Payame Noor university, Mashad, Iran (PNu). | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 174586 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-11-15 21:53:05 | Last modified: | 2015-11-15 21:53:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-11-15 21:53:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 56983. | A. Mosavinia, J. Lehmann, and M. Wilmsen. 2014. Late Albian ammonites from the Aitamir Formation (Koppeh Dagh, northeast Iran). Cretaceous Research 50:72-88 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |