Zerab tracksite: Hettangian - Pliensbachian, Iran
collected by N. Sadat & B. Farzad 1971
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Iranosauripus zerabensis n. gen., n. sp.
Lapparent and Nowgol Sadat 1975
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1 specimen | |||||||||
footprint | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Iran | State/province: | Mazandaran |
Coordinates: | 36.0° North, 53.0° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 10.1° South, 48.3° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Altitude: | 3307 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
Key time interval: | Hettangian - Pliensbachian | ||
Age range of interval: | 201.30000 - 182.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Shemshak | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "upper part of the lower Liassic" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Fragmentation: | none |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | N. Sadat & B. Farzad | Collection dates: | 1971 |
Collection method comments: on a slab that had been loosened by the river, then removed to Teheran |
Metadata
Also known as: | Elburz, Elbourz, Zirab, Alborz | ||
Database number: | 59580 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-04-04 08:03:11 | Last modified: | 2021-05-07 19:41:36 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-04-04 08:03:11 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17063. | ETE | A. F. d.e. Lapparent and M. A. A. Nowgol Sadat. 1975. Une trace à pas de Dinosaure dans le Lias de l’Elbourz, en Iran. Conséquences de cette découverte [A dinosaur footprints in the Liassic of Elbourz, in Iran. Consequences of this discovery]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série D 280:161-163 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
70678 | N. Abbassi and S. Madanipour. 2014. Dinosaur tracks from the Jurassic Shemshak Group in the central Alborz Mountains (northern Iran). Geologica Carpathica 65(2):99-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
76820 | A. W. A. Kellner, F. M. Dalla Vecchia, M. M. Ataabadi, H. P. Silva, and E. Khosravi. 2012. Review of the dinosaur record from Iran with the description of new material. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 118(2):264-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
68574 | P. Taquet. 1977. Les découvertes récentes de Dinosaures du Jurassique et du Crétacé en Afrique, au Proche et Moyen-Orient et en Inde [Recent discoveries of dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Africa, the Near and Middle East, and India]. Mémoire Hors Serie—Société Géologique de France 8:325-330 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |