Where: Iran (26.6° N, 55.9° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 55.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Fars Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from the Upper Fars Fm, which regionally overlies the Middle Fars Fm. AGE: Pliocene, on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. Assigned by enterer to Early Pliocene on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably G.E. Pilgrim, c. 1900's. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possibly Geological Suyrvey of India, or British Museum of Natural History..
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1936. Fossil Mollusca from southern Persia (Iran) and Bahrein Island. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 22(2):1-67 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79068: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2008
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Mactrinula tryphera Melvill 1899 clam | |
Antigona sp. Schumacher 1817 venus clam | |
Apolymetis papyracea Gmelin 1791 tellin clam | |
"Cardium (Trachycardium) sp." = Trachycardium
"Cardium (Trachycardium) sp." = Trachycardium Mörch 1853 cockle | |
Lithophaga lithophaga Linnaeus 1758 mussel |