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Large Devonian and Mississippian rostroconchs (Mollusca) from Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

R. D. Hoare and
Babak Aghababalu
R. D. Hoare
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
Babak Aghababalu
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran 81
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Large rostroconchs have been described from Europe by Sowerby (1815), M'Coy (1844), Baily (1871), Halfar (1882), de Koninck (1885), Hind (1900), and Amler (1996). This report concerns the first known occurrences of rostroconchs from Iran (Fig. 1). The specimens are from the Devonian Bahram Formation (Famennian) (Dastanpour, 1996; Dastanpour and Bassett, 1998; Brice, 1999; Brice et al., 1999) and the Mississippian Mobarak Formation (Tournaisian-Vis6an) (Gaetani, 1968; Bozorgnia, 1973). The Devonian specimens were collected from limestone and argillaceous limestone associated with a diverse brachiopod fauna (Fig. 2). The Mississippian specimens were found in limestone with brachiopods, corals, and crinoids (Fig. 3).

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 75 , Issue 5 , September 2001, pp. 1047 - 1051
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