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

Where: Iran (33.9° N, 57.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° S, 43.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Qal'eh Dokhtar Limestone Member (Qal'eh Dokhtar Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• top of the member; Middle to Late Oxfordian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

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 68074: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Aspidoceras sp. Zittel ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
cf. Larcheria sp. Tinant 1961 ammonite
cf. Subdiscosphinctes sp. Malinowska 1972 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
cf. Orthosphinctes sp. Schindewolf 1925 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Nautilida - Pseudonautilidae
Pseudaganides sp. Spath 1927 nautiloid