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
Iranosauripus zerabensis n. gen., n. sp. Lapparent and Nowgol Sadat 1975
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]