Ilam, east (Eocene to of Iran)

Where: Iran (33.6° N, 46.4° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 40.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Pabdeh Formation, Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (48.6 - 33.9 Ma)

• Middle to early Late Eocene

Environment/lithology: coastal; limestone

• thin to thick-bedded limestone intercalated with gray shales with abundant planktonic microfauna

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Afsari, M. Yadiz, A. Bahrami and G. Carnevale. 2014. A new deep-sea hatchetfish (Teleostei: Stomiiformes: Sternoptychidae) from the Eocene of Ilam, Zagros Basin, Iran. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 53(1):27-37 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 205345: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Lagena sp. Walker and Boys 1784
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
 Nodosariida - Stilostomellidae
Foraminifera
 Globigerinaceae - Heterohelicidae
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808
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"Marginulina wetherelli" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina wetherelli" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
 Textulariina - Tritaxiidae
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Eosternoptyx discoidalis n. gen. n. sp.
Eosternoptyx discoidalis n. gen. n. sp. Afsari et al. 2014
 Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
 Scombriformes - Palaeorhynchidae
Palaeorhynchus sp. de Blainville 1818