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- Title
Late Triassic scleractinian corals from Nayband Formation, southwest Ardestan, Central Iran.
- Authors
Mannani, Maryam
- Abstract
Late Triassic coral fauna from the Nayband Formation, southwest of Ardestan town (Central Iran), is represented by solitary, phaceloid and colonial (cerioid, meandroid, thamnasterioid, and plocoid) growth forms, attributed to 14 genera and 24 species. They occur in biostromal bioconstructions, in Bidestan and Howz-e-Khan Members of Nayband Formation. Sponges and corals are the main reef-building organisms in these biostromes, and occur together with hydrozoan Heterastridium spp., bivalves, and other reef dwellers (e.g., echinoderms, gastropods, and brachiopods). The corals of the studied area bear taxonomic resemblance to the Late Triassic corals from Northern Calcareous Alps and Pamirs, Central Asia.
- Subjects
IRAN; PAMIR; CENTRAL Asia; SCLERACTINIA; CORALS; CORAL reefs &; islands; ECHINODERMATA; GASTROPODA; ANIMALS; BIVALVES
- Publication
Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 2020, Vol 72, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1405-3322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18268/BSGM2020v72n2a090619