Also known as Elburz, Elbourz, Zirab, Alborz
Where: Mazandaran, Iran (36.0° N, 53.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° S, 48.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Shemshak Group, Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 182.7 Ma)
• "upper part of the lower Liassic"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collected by N. Sadat & B. Farzad in 1971
Collection methods: salvage, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• on a slab that had been loosened by the river, then removed to Teheran
Primary reference: A. F. d.e. Lapparent and M. A. A. Nowgol Sadat. 1975. Une trace à pas de Dinosaure dans le Lias de l’Elbourz, en Iran. Conséquences de cette découverte [A dinosaur footprints in the Liassic of Elbourz, in Iran. Consequences of this discovery]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série D 280:161-163 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 59580: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Iranosauripus zerabensis n. gen. n. sp.
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