Where: Iran (36.0° N, 51.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 54.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dorud Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Angiolini and M. H. Stephenson. 2008. Early Permian brachiopods and palynomorphs from the Dorud Group, Alborz Mountains, north Iran: evidence of their palaeobiogeographic affinities. Fossils and Strata 54:117-132 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97253: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2010

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