Kuh-d-yaghma, Zagros Mountains (Jurassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (33.2° N, 49.5° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 40.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• mostly from the upper 100 m of unit 3

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified floatstone and lithified rudstone

• biostromes in back-reef lagoon
• floatstone-rudstone biostrome lenses, without constructing rigid framework, thickness 0.2-2.5 m, lateral extension: several meters up to more than 30 m

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. Kano, Y. Kakizaki, C. Takashima, W. Wang, and R. Matsumoto. 2007. Facies and depositional environment of the uppermost Jurassic stromatoporoid biostromes in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Gff 129:107-112 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116552: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Stromatoporoidea
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Milleporidium sp.
Milleporidium sp. Steinmann 1903 stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Axinellida - Cladocoropsidae
Cladocoropsis lindstroemi n. sp.
Cladocoropsis lindstroemi n. sp. Kano et al. 2007 demosponge
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Parastromatopora memorianaumanni, Parastromatopora sp., Shuqraia sp.
Parastromatopora sp. Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 demosponge
Shuqraia sp. Hudson 1954 demosponge
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Pfenderinidae
Kurnubia sp.
Kurnubia sp. Henson 1948