ammonites
KTL-5, Tangale-Mokhtar valley (Permian of Iran)

Where: Iran (34.0° N, 56.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 57.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chili Formation, Sakmarian (295.0 - 290.1 Ma)

• Unit contains conodonts Sweetognathus inornatus and Sweetognathus anceps.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

• Limestones, gray, organogenic-detrital, thin- to medium-bedded

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

• Repository: Laboratory of Micropaleontology, the Geological Institute, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, collection no. 4787 (GIN)

Primary reference: E. Y. Leven and M. N. Gorgij. 2009. Section of Permian deposits and fusulinids in the Halvan Mountains, Yazd Province, central Iran. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 17:155-172 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130408: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.07.2012

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