Mozduran Mountains (Jurassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.1° N, 60.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 71.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mozduran Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• upper Mozduran Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified carbonate

• shallow water, high energy environment
• The Mozduran carbonates consists of diverse skeletal and non-skeletal grains, with abundant red and blue-green algae, evaporites and early diagenetic dolomites.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. H. Adabi and D. V. Ager. 1997. Late Jurassic brachiopods from north-east Iran. Palaeontology 40(2):355-362 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94605: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Torquirhynchia inconstans, Torquirhynchia lehmanni, Torquirhynchia speciosa
Torquirhynchia inconstans Sowerby 1821
25 specimens but diffcult to distinguish from other species
Torquirhynchia lehmanni Makridin 1964
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Moeschia subsella" = Xestosina subsella
"Moeschia subsella" = Xestosina subsella Leymerie 1846
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
Uralella gigantea
Uralella gigantea Makridin 1964
At least one specimen mentioned, possibly more?