Where: Khuzestan, Iran (31.7° N, 49.6° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 47.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asmari Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• upper part of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Kühn. 1933. Das Becken von Isfahan-Saidabad und seine altmiocäne Korallenfauna [The Isfahan-Saidabad Basin and its Miocene coral fauna]. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 79:143-221 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87127: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.03.2009