Parvade Coal Field, Badamu limestone Fm (Jurassic to of Iran)

Where: Tabas area, Iran (32.1° N, 57.1° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 42.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Badamu limestone Formation, Aalenian to Aalenian (174.1 - 168.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Yu. S. Repin in 1981

• The material described is housed in the museum of All-Russia Petroleum Research Exploration Institute, St. Petersburg (VNIGRI), collection no. 837

Primary reference: Y. S. Repin. 2008. New Bivalves from the Jurassic of Iran. Paleontological Journal 42(3):243-250 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141250: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 22.03.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Corbula) jurassica n. sp. Repin 2013 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilaster (Persiaster) ancestralis n. sp. Repin 2008 mussel