Algae (Dasycladales) from the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation (northeast Iran)

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Geozentrum Nordbayern, Department of Palaeoenvironment, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Loewenichstr. 28, 91054 Erlangen, Germany

Abstract

Dasycladales are relatively abundant in the bedded limestones of the Bidestan and Howz-e Khan members of the Late Triassic Nayband Formation in central Iran. In a locality south of the town of Naybandan (northwest of Dig-e Rostam), several Rhaetian dasycladacean algae were found in thin sections. The following taxa are described: Diplopora phanerospora Pia, Naybandoporella rhaetica nov. gen. nov. sp., Naybandoporella cf. rhaetica.
The species Probolocuspis sarmeikensis Senowbari-Daryan is replaced and attributed to the genus Naybandoporella. The microfacies characteristics of the limestones as well as the associated organisms are mentioned.
Key words: Algae, Dasycladales, Naybandoporella, Upper Triassic, Nayband Formation, Iran

Keywords


Article Title [Persian]

-

Bodrogi, I., Conrad, M. A., Lobitzer, H., 1993. Lower Cretaceous Dasycladales from the Villány zone, Southwest Hungary. Biogeographical significance. Boll. Soc. Paleont. Ital., special 1: 59-68 (in: Barattolo, F., De Castro, P. & Parente, M. (eds.): Suties on Fossil Benthic Algae.##
Brönnimann, P., Zaninetti, L, Bozorgnia, F., Dashti, G. R., Moshtaghian, A., 1971. Lithostratigraphy and foraminifera of the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, Iran. Rev. Micropaleont., 14 (5): 7-16.##
Cherchi, A., Schroeder R., 2013. Revision of the holotype of Lithocodium aggregatum Elliott 1956 (Lower Cretaceous, Iraq): New Interpretation as sponge-calcimicrobe consortium. Facies, 59: 49-57.##
Deloffre, P., 1988. Nouvelle Taxonomie des Algues Dasycladales.- Bull. Centr. Rech. Expl.-Prod. Elf-Aquitane, 12 (1): 165-217.##
Endo, R., 1952. Stratigraphical and Paleontological Studies of the Later Paleozoic Calcareous Algae in Japan, II. Trans. Proc. Paleont. Soc. Japan, new. ser., 5: 139-144.##
Fenninger, A., 1969. Ein Beitrag zur Flora and Fauna im Raum von Golpaygan (Iran). Verh. Geol. Bundesanstalt, 1: 22-32.##
Flügel, E., 2004. Microfacies of carbonate rocks. 976 p., Springer.## 
Flügel, E., 2010. Microfacies of carbonate rocks. Springer.##
Flügel, E., Mu, X. 1982. Upper Triassic Dasycladaceae from Easten Tibet. Facies, 6: 59-74.##
Fürsich, F. T., Hautmann, M., Senowbari-Daryan, B., Seyed-Emami, K., 2005. The Upper Triassic Nayband and Darkuh formations of east-central Iran: Stratigraphy, facies pattern and biota of extensional basins on an accreted terrane. Beringeria, 35: 53-133.##
Kützing, F. T., 1843. Phycologia, Generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systematik der Tange. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig: 311-313.##
Nittel, P., 2006. Beiträge zur Stratigraphie und Mikropaläontologie der Mitteltrias der Innsbrucker Nordkette (Nördliche Kalkalpen, Austria). Geo. Alp., 3: 93-14.##
Papenfuss, G. F., 1955. Classification of the algae: A century of progress in the natural sciences 1853-1953. Californian Acad. Sci. San Francisco, 20: 115-224.##
Parente, M., Climaco, A., 1999. Dasycladacean green algae from the Upper Triassic of Mt. Rotonda (Verbicaro Unit, Calabria-Lucania border, Southern Italy). Facies, 41: 159-182.##
Pascher, A. 1931. Systematische Übersicht über die mit Flagellaten in Zusammenhang stehenden Algenreihen und Versuch einer Einreihung dieser Algenstämme in die Stämme des Pflanzenreiches. Botanisches Centralblatt, Beiheft, 48: 317-332.##
Pia, J., 1920. Die Siphoneae verticillatae vom Karbon bis zur Kreide. Abh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 11(2): 1-263.##
Pia, J., 1930. Upper Triassic fossils from the Burmo-Siamese frontier. A new Dasycladacea, Holosporella siamensis nov. gen., nov. sp., with a description of the allied genus Aciculella Pia. Records geol. Surv. India, 63(1): 177-181.##
Ott, E. 1967. Dasycladaceen (Kalkalgen) aus der nordalpinen Obertrias. Mitt. Bayer. Staatssamml. Paläont. hist. Geol., 7: 205-226.##
Ott, E., 1972. Zur Kalkalgen-Stratigraphie der Alpinen Trias. Mitt. Ges. Geol. Bergbaustud., 21: 455-464.##
Rashidi, K., Senowbari-Daryan, B., 2011. Sponges from a section of the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, northeast of Esfahan, central Iran. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, Ser. A, 113: 309-317.##
Schafhäutl, K. E., 1963. Süd-Bayerns Lethaea Geognostica. Geologisch betrachtet in ihren Petrefacten.- L. Voss, Leipzig, xvii + 487 p., 86 pls.##
Schlagintweit, F., 2011. Taxonomic Revision of Late Triassic „Lithocodium aggregatum Elliot“(Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria). Jb. Geol. B.-A. Wien, 151 (3+4): 375-396.##
Senowbari-Daryan, B., 1980. Fazielle und paläontologische Untersuchungen in oberräthischen Riffen (Feichtenstein‑ und Gruberriff bei Hintersee, Salzburg, Nördliche Kalkalpen). Facies, 3: 1‑237.##
Senowbari-Daryan, B., 2005a. Neue inozoide Schwämme aus den obertriassischen (Nor-Rhät) Riffen der Nayband-Formation (Zentraliran). Senckenbergiana lethaea, 85 (2): 261-299.##
Senowbari-Daryan, B., 2005b. Hypercalcified sphinctozoan sponges from Upper Trissic (Norian-Rhaetian) reefs of Nayband Formation (Central and Northeast Iran) - Jb. Geol. B.-A., Wien, 145 (2): 171-277.##
Senowbari-Daryan, B., 2014. Dasycladales algae from the Norian-Rhaetian reef carbonates of Argolis Peninsula, Greece. Acta Palaeont. Romoniae, 10(1-2): 39-46.##
Senowbari-Daryan, B., Hamedani, A., 2000. Obertriadische Dasycladaceen aus der Nayband-Formation vom Zentraliran. Rev. Paléobiol. Genève, 19 (1): 97-121.##
Senowbari-Daryan, B., Majidifard, M. R., 2003. A Triassic “Problematic” microfossil revealed: Probolocuspis espahkensis Bronnimann, Zaninetti, Moshtaghian & Huber 1974 is attributed to the dasycladacean algae. Facies, 48: 107-114.##
Senowbari-Daryan, B., Rashidi, K., Saberzadeh, B., 2011. Dasycladalean green algae and some problematic algae from the Upper Triassic of the Nayband Formation (northeast Iran). Geol. Carpathica, 62 (6): 501-517.##
Senowbari-Daryan, B., Torabi, H., Rashidi, K., 2008. New solenoporaceans from the Upper Triassic (Norian?-Rhaetian) reef limestones in central Iran. Geol. Croatica, 61(2-3): 135-157.##