Section C, MFT4_Coral reef (boundstone), calcareous upper-unit (Eocene of Iran)

Also known as Reef 4396

Where: Iran (32.7° N, 59.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.3° N, 56.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lut platform Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• thinly bedded gray clay bearing trace fossils, gray-dark large foraminiferal argillaceous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: S. A. Babazadeh and M. Alavi. 2013. Paleoenvironmental model for Early Eocene larger benthic foraminiferal deposits from south Birjand region, east Iran. Revue de Paleobiologie 32(1):223-233 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226731: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.07.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Discocyclinidae
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida -
Miliolida indet. Lankester 1885
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster rimosus Desor 1847 heart urchin