Shotori Mountains, Niaz Section (Devonian of Iran)

Where: Iran (33.7° N, 57.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° S, 91.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: lower Shishtu 1 Member (Shishtu Formation), Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• The member contains unit of red brachiopod limestones (about 30 metres) called “Cephalopod Beds”.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Ernst, Z. Tolokonnikova, and H. Yarahmadzahi. 2012. Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Bryozoa from the Shishtu 1 Formation of Niaz area (eastern Tabas, central Iran). Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 31(1):1-14 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144944: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.05.2013, edited by Barbara Seuss

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistuliphragma modica
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Mackinneyella sp., Mackinneyella sibirica
Mackinneyella sp. Morozova and Lisitsyn 1996
Mackinneyella sibirica Yanischevskyi 1915
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Anastomopora cf. quebecensis
 Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
Canutrypa hemispheroidea
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Phillipsastreidae indet., Phillipsastrea sp., Frechastraea sp.
Phillipsastreidae indet. Hill 1954 horn coral
Phillipsastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral
Frechastraea sp. Scrutton 1968 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Hexagonaria sp.
Hexagonaria sp. Gürich 1896 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora indet.
Thamnopora indet. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet.
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge