Elikah River section IR230, Alborz mountains (Triassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.2° N, 51.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 44.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Elikah Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, stromatolitic, shelly/skeletal limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. B. Forel, S. Crasquin, A. Chitnarin, L. Angiolini, and M. Gaetani. 2015. Precocious sexual dimorphism and the Lilliput effect in Neo-Tethyan Ostracoda (Crustacea) through the Permian-Triassic boundary. Palaeontology 58:409-454 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168942: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Scrobiculidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
"? Praezabythocypris cf. ottomanensis" = Bairdiacypris ottomanensis, Bairdia "sp. 5"
"? Praezabythocypris cf. ottomanensis" = Bairdiacypris ottomanensis Crasquin-Soleau et al. 2004 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 5" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Callicythere "sp. 1" Wei 1981 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
"? Buekkella sp." = Judahella
"? Buekkella sp." = Judahella ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Basslerella superarella Crasquin 2015 ostracod
 Podocopa -
Palaeocopida indet. Henningsmoen 1953 ostracod