Where: Iran (29.6° N, 52.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 49.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Fars Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Asmari Limestone, which regionally overlies the Asmari Limestone, and is overlain by the Middle Fars Fm. AGE: Early Miocene, on the basis of macrofossil similarity to Burdigalian and Upper Gaj strata. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal "gypsum beds" of formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gypsiferous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: G.E. Pilgrim, c. 1900's. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possibly Geological Suyrvey of India, or British Museum of Natural History.
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1936. Fossil Mollusca from southern Persia (Iran) and Bahrein Island. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 22(2):1-67 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79064: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2008
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Ostrea latimarginata Vredenburg 1908 oyster | |
Clausinella persica Cox 1936 venus clam | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle |