Aliabad locality, section MH (Cretaceous to of Iran)

Where: Iran (31.6° N, 53.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 62.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Taft Formation, Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 122.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. I. Bucur, K. Rashidi, and B. Senowbari-Daryan. 2012. Early Cretaceous calcareous algae from central Iran (Taft Formation, south of Aliabad, near Yazd). Facies 58:605-636 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210071: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Gorgonacea -
Carpathoporella occidentalis Dragastan 1967 gorgonian
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Boueina sp. Toula 1883
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Deloffrella quercifoliipora Granier and Michaud 1987
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Montiella elitzae Bakalova 1971
Neomeris cretacea Steinmann 1899
 Dasycladales -
Terquemella sp. Morellet and Morellet 1913
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Foraminifera
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Charentia cuvillieri Neumann 1965
  -
Torremiroella hispanica Brun and Canerot 1979
Balkhania balkhanica Mamontova 1966
 Lituolacea - Mayncinidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Pycnoporidium sp. Yabe and Toyama 1928
Marinella lugeoni Pfender 1939
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959