Section C, MFT4_Coral reef (boundstone), calcareous lower-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 and mudstone

• Succession of uniform and well-bedded bioclastic limestones (grainstone and packstones) to micritic limestones (wackestones), bioturbated mudstone, silty limestone and sandy limestones with cross-bedding.

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 226729: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.07.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Orbitolites sp., Opertorbitolites douvillei
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Alveolina avellana, Alveolina pasticillata
Alveolina avellana Hottinger 1960
Alveolina pasticillata Schwager 1883