Mazinu area (Jurassic to of Iran)

Where: Tabas Area, Iran (33.1° N, 56.2° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 43.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badamu Formation, Aalenian to Aalenian (174.1 - 168.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• crustal fragment
• massive oolithes and mixed carbonate-silicviclastics.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: D. K. Pandey and F. T. Fürsich. 2003. Jurassic corals of east-central Iran. Beringeria 32:1-138 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41399: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 14.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria mettensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Thamnasteria gracilis Münster 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina tenax Etallon and Thurmann 1864 stony coral