Band-e-Chaker Syncline, Irere section (Miocene of Iran)

Also known as Reef 656

Where: Iran (26.7° N, 57.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.8° N, 57.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Band-e- Chaker Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and marl

• shallow marine mixed siliclastic-carbonate sediments
• reefal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. Harzhauser, M. Reuter, T. Mohtat and W. E. Piller. 2017. Early Miocene reef- and mudflat-associated gastropods from Makran (SE-Iran). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 91:519-539 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191063: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.01.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only corals described
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Miogypsinidae
Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Scaphander javanus Martin 1879 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Cernina carlei Finlay 1927 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Tibia cf. indica Dey 1961 true conch
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena cf. lainei Basterot 1825 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Semicassis cf. bisulcata Schubert and Wagner 1829 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
Trivellona makranica Harzhauser et al. 2017 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Zaria angulata" = Kapalmerella ranikoti
"Zaria angulata" = Kapalmerella ranikoti Vredenburg 1928 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Vicarya verneuili Archiac 1851 horn snail
Terebralia sublignitarum Vredenburg 1928 horn snail
Terebralia miosulcata Vredenburg 1928 horn snail
Terebralia gajensis Vredenburg 1928 horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail
 Neritoina - Neritopsidae
Campanilopsis pakistanica Eames 1950 snail
Neritopsis gedrosiana Harzhauser et al. 2017 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Calliostoma irerense Harzhauser et al. 2017 top snail
Calliostoma mohtatae Harzhauser et al. 2017 top snail
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Turbo cf. petholatus" = Turbo (Turbo) petholatus, "Angaria cf. delphinus" = Delphinula delphinus
"Turbo cf. petholatus" = Turbo (Turbo) petholatus Linnaeus 1758 snail
"Angaria cf. delphinus" = Delphinula delphinus Linnaeus 1758 laciniated dolphin shell