Elikah River section IR223, Alborz mountains (Triassic of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.2° N, 51.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 44.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Elikah Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, stromatolitic limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. B. Forel, S. Crasquin, A. Chitnarin, L. Angiolini, and M. Gaetani. 2015. Precocious sexual dimorphism and the Lilliput effect in Neo-Tethyan Ostracoda (Crustacea) through the Permian-Triassic boundary. Palaeontology 58:409-454 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168935: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
? Liuzhinia "sp. 3" Zheng 1976 ostracod
Liuzhinia "sp. 5" Zheng 1976 ostracod
Liuzhinia cf. antalyaensis Crasquin-Soleau et al. 2004 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
Cytherellina "sp. 1" Jones and Holl 1869 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Paracypris cf. gaetanii Crasquin-Soleau 2006 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Callicythere "sp. 1" Wei 1981 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Basslerella superarella Crasquin 2015 ostracod