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Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana Volumen 75, núm. 2, A010523, 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2023v75n2a010523
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New records of brachiopods from the Lower Miocene deposits of the Qom Formation of the Isfahan province, Central Iran
Nuevos registros de braquiópodos de los depósitos del Mioceno Inferior de la Formación Qom en la provincial de Isfahan, Irán Central
Maria Aleksandra Bitner1,*, Ali Bahrami2, Mansooreh Sani Josheghani2, Mehdi Yazdi 2, Kamil Zágoršek3
1 Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland.
2 Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Isfahan, 81746, Isfahan, Iran.
3 Department of Geography, Technical University of Liberec, Studentská 2, CZ-461, 17 Liberec, Czech Republic.
* Corresponding author: (M.A. Bitner) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
How to cite this article:
Bitner, M.A., Bahrami, A., Josheghani, M.S., Yazdi, M., Zágoršek, K., 2023, New records of brachiopods from the Lower Miocene deposits of the Qom Formation of the Isfahan province, Central Iran: Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 75 (2), A010523. http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2023v75n2a010523
Manuscript received: March 21, 2023; Corrected manuscript received: April 25, 2023; Manuscript accepted: April 30, 2023.
ABSTRACT
The study presents new records of brachiopods from the Lower Miocene deposits of the Qom Formation from two sections, Bagh and Ramsheh in the Isfahan province, Central Iran. Three species, i.e. Argyrotheca bitnerae, Joania cordata, and Platidia anomioides, have been identified in the investigated material. All species are present in the Bagh section whereas in the material from Ramsheh A. bitnerae was not found. Although the species recognized here were already described from the Miocene of the Qom Formation, this is their first report from the localities of Bagh and Ramsheh, providing new data on the distribution of brachiopods in the Cenozoic of Iran.
Keywords: Brachiopoda, Lower Miocene, Qom Formation, Central Iran.
