Ora and Harur, near the Turkish frontier in Mosul Liwa (Permian of Iraq)

Where: Iraq (37.0° N, 42.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.7° S, 42.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: G. F. Elliott. 1955. Fossil calcareous algae from the Middle East. Micropaleontology 1(2):125-131 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 147700: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
Diplopora sp. Schafhaeutl 1863
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Mizzia velebitana Schubert 1908
"Gymnocodium bellerophontis" = Gyroporella bellerophontis Rothpletz 1894