Where: Iran (38.1° N, 56.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 60.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parahoplites melchioris ammonoid zone, Aitamir Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie (MMG) of the Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden (SNSD), Germany and the institutional collection of the Payame Noor University, Mashad, Iran (PNU)

Primary reference: J. Lehmann, A. Mosavinia, and M. Wilmsen. 2019. Parahoplitid ammonites and narrowing down the Aptian/Albian boundary interval in northern Iran. Cretaceous Research 94:207-228 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197559: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.11.2018

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