Boshrouyeh, top of Qal'eh Dokhtar Siltstone Member (Jurassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (33.9° N, 57.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.7° S, 43.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Qal'eh Dokhtar Siltstone Member (Qal'eh Dokhtar Formation), Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• top of the member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Schairer, K. Seyed-Emami, F. T. Fürsich, B. Senowbari-Daryan, S. A. Aghanabati and M. R. Majidifard. 2000. Stratigraphy, facies analysis and ammonite fauna of the Qal'eh Dokhtar Formation (Middle-Upper Jurassic) at the type locality west of Boshrouyeh (east-central Iran). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 216(1):35-66 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68073: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Reineckeiidae
Reineckeiidae indet. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Indosphinctes sp. Spath 1930 ammonite
Flabellisphinctes (Flabellia) sp. Mangold and Elmi 1966 ammonite
Choffatia (Grossouvria) sp. Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite
Choffatia (Choffatia) cf. neumayri Siemiradzki 1899 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Hecticoceras (Putealiceras) cf. punctatum, "Hecticoceras (Rossiensiceras) metomphalum" = Brightia metomphala, "Hecticoceras (Lunuloceras) ex gr. pseudopunctatum" = Lunuloceras, Hecticoceras (Brightia) ex gr. nodosum
Hecticoceras (Putealiceras) cf. punctatum Stahl 1824 ammonite
subspecies punctatum and arcuatum
"Hecticoceras (Rossiensiceras) metomphalum" = Brightia metomphala Bonarelli 1893 ammonite
"Hecticoceras (Lunuloceras) ex gr. pseudopunctatum" = Lunuloceras ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lissoceratidae
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Calliphylloceras sp. Spath 1927 ammonite
Holcophylloceras sp. Spath 1927 ammonite