Palaeoecology and distribution of upper Oligocene–lower Miocene foraminifera in the Qom Formation, the Bagher-Abad section, NE Isfahan, Central Iran

Brachiopods from the Lower Red Formation (Lower Oligocene) of the Isfahan Province, Central Iran

“…In contrast to Europe, where Paleogene and Neogene brachiopods have been investigated intensively, those from Iran are still poorly known. Although the presence of brachiopods (without descriptions) was mentioned from several sections of the Qom Formation (Nouradini et al, 2014(Nouradini et al, , 2015(Nouradini et al, , 2019Zágoršek et al, 2017) while investigating other fossils, the first record describing brachiopod taxonomy is that from the Lower Miocene deposits of the Qom Formation in the Esfahan-Sirjan Basin, where six species, i.e., Lacazella mediterranea (Risso, 1826), Megathiris detruncata (Gmelin, 1791), Argyrotheca cuneata (Risso, 1826), A. bitnerae Dulai in Dulai and Stachacz, 2011, Joania cordata (Risso, 1826), and Platidia anomioides (Scacchi and Philippi in Philippi, 1844), were recognized (Pedramara et al, 2019). Recently, two new records of brachiopods from the Qom Formation have been reported (Bitner et al, 2023).…”