Kuh-e Nayband reef, Tabas area, East-central Iran (Triassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (32.5° N, 57.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° S, 51.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shotori Dolomite Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Age assignment based on algal association, only referring to upper portion of Shotori Dolomite

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified reef rocks and lithified dolomite

• dolomite with intercalated carbonate beds (containing fossils), approximately 800m thick

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: B. Senowbari-Daryan. 2003. Micropaleontology of Limestone Beds within the Shotori Dolomite (Triassic) of Kuh-e Nayband, Tabas Area, East-Central Iran. Facies (48)115-126 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37045: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 25.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Problematikum
  -
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Garwoodia sp. Wood 1941
Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Grossulariaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Dasycladales indet. Kützing 1860
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
? Diplopora sp. Schafhaeutl 1863
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
 Thaumatoporellales -
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Boueina sp. Toula 1883
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
"Glomospirella friedli" = Parvalamella friedli Kristan-Tollmann 1962
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
Agathammina sp. Neumayr 1887
Foraminifera
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae