Also known as Elburz

Where: Mazandaran, Iran (36.0° N, 53.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° S, 48.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shemshak Formation, Hettangian to Hettangian (201.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• "upper part of the lower Liassic"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by Sadat & Farzad in 1971

Collection methods: salvage, surface (float), surface (in situ),

• on a slab that had been loosened by the river, then removed to Teheran

Primary reference: A. F. d.e. Lapparent and M. A. A. N. 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] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59580: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 04.04.2006