Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Foraminifera and their associations of a possibly Rhaetian section of the Nayband Formation in central Iran, northeast of Esfahan

  • Original Article
  • Published:
Facies Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The following paper describes the foraminiferal fauna and associated faunal assemblages of the bedded and reef carbonates of the Upper Triassic (most probably Rhaetian) Nayband Formation, which are exposed in a section south of the small town of Bagher-Abad, northeast of Esfahan. Foraminifers are extremely rare in sponge- or coral-dominated bioconstructions and in the bedded carbonates of the Nayband Formation in central Iran. Some carbonate beds are composed of bioclastic wackstone/packstone. These are exposed in the solenoporacean horizon at the uppermost part of the section. Here, the aulotortid- and trocholinid-type foraminifers are relatively abundant. The following foraminiferal taxa with different abundances were found within the carbonates of the investigated section: Trocholina umbo Frentzen, T. turris Frentzen, T. gracilis Blau, Aulotortus tumidus (Kristan-Tollmann), Aulotortus tenuis (Kristan), Aulotortus friedli (Kristan-Tollmann), Coronipora etrusca (Pirini), Semiinvoluta clari Kristan, Turrispirillina? licia variabilis Blau, Galeanella? laticarinata Al-Shaibani, Carter and Zaninetti, Ophthalmidium sp., Agathammina sp., “Sigmoilina” schaeferae Zaninetti, Planiinvoluta carinata Leischner, Planiinvoluta sp., Nubecularia sp., Endothyra sp., Paeolituonella sp. and some sessile agglutinated and nodosariid types. All mentioned taxa are very rare, except the involutinid and trocholinid types. The following species are described as new: Trocholina blaui nov. sp., Spirilina? iranica nov. sp., and Coronipora serraforma nov. sp. Trocholina blaui is usually attached to solenoporacean thalli. Four foraminiferal associations, which are named after the occurrence of the abundant species, were distinguished as Aulotortus tumidus association, Aulotortus friedli association, Trocholina umbo association, and Trocholina blaui association. Aulotortid types and Trocholina umbo were found within the bioclastic wackstone/packstone carbonates. Trocholina blaui is abundant in solenoporacean framestones. The foraminiferal association of investigated carbonates contains a mixed fauna, known from Upper Triassic–Liassic in the Tethyan realm. Carbonates of the whole investigated section are dated—due to occurrence of the genus Aulotortus, with species A. tumidus (Kristan-Tollmann), A. tenuis (Kristan), and A. friedli (Kristan-Tollmann)—as Upper Triassic (most probably Rhaetian). The “typical” foraminifers occurring in the reef biotopes in the northwestern Tethys are either missing or extremely rare in the Iranian bioconstructions.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11
Fig. 12
Fig. 13
Fig. 14
Fig. 15
Fig. 16
Fig. 17
Fig. 18
Fig. 19
Fig. 20
Fig. 21
Fig. 22
Fig. 23

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Adamoli L, Bigozzi A, Ciarapica G, Cirilli S, Passeri L, Romano A, Duranti F, Venturi F (1990) Upper Triassic bituminous facies and Hettangian pelagic facies in the Gran Sasso Range. Boll Soc Geol Ital 109:219–230

    Google Scholar 

  • Al-Shaibani SK, Carter DJ, Zaninetti L (1983) Geological and micropaleontological investigations in the Upper Triassic (Asinepe Limestone) of Seram, Outer Banda Arc, Indonesia. Arch Sc Genève 36:297–313

    Google Scholar 

  • Al-Shaibani SK, Carter DJ, Zaninetti L (1984) Microfaunes associées aux Involutinidae et aux Milioliporidae dans le Trias supérieur (Rhétien) de Seram, Indonésie; Précisions Stratigraphiques et Paléoécologie. Arch Sc Genève 37:301–316

    Google Scholar 

  • Altiner D, Zaninetti L (1980) Le Trias de la région de Pinarbasi, Taurus oriental, Turquie: unités lithologiques, micropaléontologie, milieux de dépot. Riv Ital Paleont 86:705–760

    Google Scholar 

  • Bérczi-Makk A (1980) Szilvágyi (DN-Magyarország) triász-jura mikrobiofáciesek. Földtani Közlöny Bull Hungarian Geol Soc 110:90–103

    Google Scholar 

  • Bérczi-Makk A (1996) Foraminifera of the Triassic formations of Alsó Hill (northern Hungary). Part 2: Foraminifer assemblage of the Wetterstein Limestone Formation. Acta Geol Hungarica 39:223–309

    Google Scholar 

  • Bérczi-Makk A, Haas J (1993) Upper Paleozoic-Mesozoic formations of the Mid-Transdanubian Unit and their relationships. Acta Geol Hungarica 36:263–296

    Google Scholar 

  • Bernecker M (1996) Upper Triassic of the Oman Mountains: data from the South Tethyan margin. Facies 34:41–76

    Google Scholar 

  • Blau J (1987a) Neue Foraminiferen aus dem Lias der Lienzer Dolomiten. Teil I: Die Foraminiferenfauna einer roten Spaltenfüllung in Oberrhätkalken. Jb Geol B-A 129(3+4):495–523

    Google Scholar 

  • Blau J (1987b) Neue Foraminiferen aus dem Lias der Lienzer Dolomiten. Teil II (Schluß): Foraminiferen (Involutinina, Spirillinina) aus der Lavanter Breccie (Lienzer Dolomiten) und den Nördlichen Kalkalpen. Jb Geol B-A 130:5–23

    Google Scholar 

  • Blau J, Grün B (1997) Neue Involutininen (Foraminifera) aus dem marmorea-Hartgrund (Hettangium/Sinemurium, Lias) von Adnet (Österreich). N Jb Geol Paläont Abh 204:247–262

    Google Scholar 

  • Blau J, Haas J (1991) Lower Liassic involutinids (Foraminifera) from the Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary. Paläont Z 65:7–23

    Google Scholar 

  • Blau J, Schmidt T (1990) Zur Stratigraphie des oberen Hauptdolomits (Nor) der Lienzer Dolomiten (Osttirol, Österreich). Geol Paläont Mitt Innsbruck 17:1–23

    Google Scholar 

  • Boccaletti M, Ficcarelli G, Manetti P, Turi A (1969) Analisi stratigrafiche, sedimentologiche e petrografiche delle formazioni mesozoiche della Val di Lima (Prov. di Lucca). Mem Soc Geol Ital 8:847–922

    Google Scholar 

  • Böhm F, Ebli O, Krystyn L, Lobitzer H, Rakús M, Siblik M (1999) Fauna, stratigraphy and depositional environment of the Hettangian-Sinemurian (Early Jurassic) of Adnet (Salzburg, Austria). Abh Geol B-A 56(2):143–271

    Google Scholar 

  • Borza K, Samuel O (1977) New genera and species (incertae sedis) from the Upper Triassic in the West Carpathians. Geol Zborn Slov Akad Vied 28:95–119

    Google Scholar 

  • Borza K, Samuel O (1978) Pseudocucurbita tintinniformis and P. tulipaformis nov. gen. et nov. sp. (incertae sedis) from Upper Triassic limestones of West Carpathians (Czechoslovakia). ZK Paleont 2–3:143–150

    Google Scholar 

  • Brönnimann P, Poisson A, Zaninetti L (1970) L‘unité du Domuz Dag (Taurus lycien-Turquie). Microfacies et Foraminifères du Trias et du Lias. Riv Ital Paleont 76:1–36

    Google Scholar 

  • Brönnimann P, Zaninetti L, Bozorgnia F, Dashti GR, Moshtaghian A (1971) Lithostratigraphy and foraminifera of the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, Iran. Rev Micropaléontology 14:7–16

    Google Scholar 

  • Brönnimann P, Cadet JP, Ricou LE, Zaninetti L (1973a) Révision morphologique et émendation du genere triasique Galeanella Kristan-Tollmann (Foraminifère) et déscription de Galeanella panticae n. sp. (Dinarids Yugoslaves et Zagros, Iran). Verh Geol B-A 1973:411–435

    Google Scholar 

  • Brönnimann P, Zaninetti L, Moshtaghian A, Huber H (1973b) Foraminifera from the Sorkh Shale formation of the Tabas Area, east-central Iran. Riv Ital Paleont 79:1–32

    Google Scholar 

  • Brönnimann P, Zaninetti L, Moshtaghian A, Huber H (1974) Foraminifera and microfacies of the Triassic Espahk Formation, Tabas area, east central Iran. Riv Ital Paleont 80:1–48

    Google Scholar 

  • Bütschli O (1880) System der Rhizopoda. In: Bronn HG: Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs Bd 1 Abt 1:172–217, Leipzig and Heidelberg (CF Winter)

  • Ciarapica G, Zaninetti L (1985) Le cas de “Glomospirella friedli-Angulodiscus? gaschei” (= Aulotortus friedli, Aulotortinae, Involutinidae, Foraminifère, Trias): Analyse structurale et révision taxonomique. Arch Sc Genève 38:71–86

    Google Scholar 

  • Ciarapica G, Cirilli S, Passeri L, Tricianti E, Zaninetti L (1987) “Anidriti di Burano” et “Formation du Monte Cetona” (Nouvelle Formation), biostratigraphie de deux series-types du Trias superieur dans L’Appennin Septentrional. Rev Paléobiologie 6:341–409

    Google Scholar 

  • Cirilli S (1993) Il Trias di Filettino-Vallepietra (Monti Simbruini, Appennino Centrle). Boll Soc Geol Ital 112:371–394

    Google Scholar 

  • Cirilli S, Buratti N, Senowbari-Daryan B, Fürsich FT (2005) Stratigraphy and palynology of the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation of east-central Iran. Riv Ital Paleont Stratigr 111:259–270

    Google Scholar 

  • Cushman JA (1927) An outline of a re-classification of the Foraminifera. Contr Cushman Lab Foram Res 3:1–101

    Google Scholar 

  • Douglas JA (1929) A marine Triassic fauna from eastern Persia. Quart J Geol Soc London 85:625–650

    Google Scholar 

  • Ebli O (1993) Foraminiferen aus dem Unterlias der Nördlichen Kalkalpen. Zitteliana 20:155–164

    Google Scholar 

  • Ebli O (1997) Sedimentation und Biofazies an passiven Kontinentalrändern und des frühen Atlantik (DSDP site 547B, offshore Marokko). Münchner Geowiss Abh A 32:1–255

    Google Scholar 

  • Ehrenberg CG (1843) Verbreitung und Einfluss des mikroskopischen Lebens in Süd- und Nord-Amerika. Physikalische Abh königl Akad Wiss Berlin 1841 (Teil 1):291–446

  • Eichwald CE (1830) Zoologia specialis 2:1–233, Vilnae

  • Fallahi M, Gruber B, Tichy G (1983) Gastropoden und Bivalven aus den oberen Teil der Nayband-Formation (Obertrias) von Bagirabad (Isfahan, Iran). Schriftenreihe Erdwiss Kommiss 5:57–82

    Google Scholar 

  • Flügel E, Senowbari-Daryan B (2001) Triassic reefs of the Tethys. In: Stanley GD Jr (ed) The history and sedimentology of ancient reef systems. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, pp 217–249

    Google Scholar 

  • Frentzen K (1941) Foraminiferenfauna des Lias, Doggers und unteren Malms der Umgebung von Blumberg (Oberes Wutachgebiet). Beitr Naturk Forschung Oberrheingeb 6:125–402

    Google Scholar 

  • Fürsich FT, Hautmann M, Senowbari-Daryan B, Seyed-Emami K (2005) The Upper Triassic Nayband and Darkuh formation of east-central Iran: stratigraphy, facies pattern and biota of extensional basins on an accreted terrane. Beringeria 35:53–134

    Google Scholar 

  • Gazdzicki A (1983) Foraminiferes and biostratigraphy of Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic of the Slovakian and Polish Carpathians. Palaeont Polonica 44:109–169

    Google Scholar 

  • Gazdzicki A, Reid P (1983) Upper Triassic Involutinidae (Foraminifera) of Lime Peak in Yukon, Canada. Acta Geol Polonica 33:101–106

    Google Scholar 

  • Gazdzicki A, Trammer J, Zawidzka K (1975) Foraminifers from the Muschelkalk of southern Poland. Acta Geol Polonica 25:285–298

    Google Scholar 

  • Hallam A (1990) The end Triassic mass extinction event. Geol Soc Am Spec Papers 247:577–583

    Google Scholar 

  • Hautmann M (2001) Die Muschelfauna der Nayband-Formation (Obertrias, Nor-Rhät) des östlichen Zentraliran. Beringeria 29:1–181

    Google Scholar 

  • He Y, Cai LQ (1991) Middle Triassic Foraminifera from Tiandong Depression, Baise Basin, Guangxi, China (in Chinese with English abstract). Acta Paleont Sinica 30:212–230

    Google Scholar 

  • He Y, Wang L (1990) Triassic foraminifera from Yushu region, Qinghai. Devonian–Triassic Stratigraphy and Palaeontology from Yushu region of Qinghai, China, Part I: 59–96 (in Chinese, with English summary). Nanjing University Press, Nanjing

    Google Scholar 

  • Henson FRS (1947) Foraminifera of the Genus Trocholina in the Middle East. Ann Mag Nat Hist 14:445–459

    Google Scholar 

  • Hohenegger J, Lobitzer H (1971) Die Foraminiferen-Verteilung in einem obertriadischen Karbonatplattform-Becken-Komplex der östlichen Nördlichen Kalkalpen. Verh Geol B-A Jg 1971:458–485

    Google Scholar 

  • Hohenegger J, Piller W (1975a) Wandstrukturen und Großgliederung der Foraminiferen. Österr Akad Wiss Sitzber, math-naturw Kl Abt I 184:67–96

    Google Scholar 

  • Hohenegger J, Piller W (1975b) Ökologie und systematische Stellung der Foraminiferen im gebankten Dachsteinkalk (Obertrias) des nördlichen Toten Gebirges (Oberösterreich). Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimat Palaeoecol 18:241–276

    Google Scholar 

  • Hohenegger J, Piller W (1977) Die Stellung der Involutinidae Bütschli und Spirillinidae Reuss im System der Foraminiferen. N Jb Geol Paläont Mh 1977:407–418

    Google Scholar 

  • Jablonský E (1973) Mikroproblematika aus der Trias der Westkarpaten. Geol Zborn Slov Akad Vied 24:415–423

    Google Scholar 

  • Karakitosis V, Tsaila-Monopolis S (1988) New data from the upper part (Early Middle Lias) of the Pantokrator Limestone (Middle Ionian Zone, Epirus, Continental Greece). Description of Louros Limestone. Rev Micropaleont 31:49–55

    Google Scholar 

  • Kobayashi F, Martini R, Rettori R, Zaninetti L, Ratanasthien B, Saegusa H, Nakaya H (2006) Triassic foraminifers of the Lampang Group (Northern Thailand). J Asian Earth Sci 27:312–325

    Google Scholar 

  • Koehn-Zaninetti L (1969) Les Foraminifères du Trias de la Région de l‘Almtal (Haute-Autriche). Jb Geol B-A Sonderbd 14:1–155

    Google Scholar 

  • Koehn-Zaninetti L, Brönnimann P (1968) Angulodiscus? gaschei, n. sp., une foraminifere de la Dolomiie principale des Alpes Calcaires septentrionales (Autriche). C R Séance SPHN, n ser 2(1):74-80

  • Kristan E (1957) Ophthalmidiidae und Tetrataxinae (Foraminifera) aus dem Rhät der Hohen Wand in Nieder-Österreich. Jb Geol B-A 100:269–298

    Google Scholar 

  • Kristan E (1958) Neue Namen für zwei Foraminiferengattungen aus dem Rhät. Verh Geol B-A 1:114

    Google Scholar 

  • Kristan-Tollmann E (1962) Stratigraphisch wertvolle Foraminiferen aus Obertrias- und Liaskalken der voralpinen Fazies bei Wien. Erdoel Zeitschrift 4:228–233

    Google Scholar 

  • Kristan-Tollmann E (1964) Die Foraminiferen aus den rhätischen Zlambachmergeln der Fischerwiese bei Ausee in Salzkammergut. Jb Geol B-A Sonderband 10:1–189

    Google Scholar 

  • Kristan-Tollmann E (1986a) Beobachtungen zur Trias am Südostrande der Tethys–Papua/Neuguinea, Australien, Neuseeland. N Jb Geol Paläont Mh 1986:201–222

    Google Scholar 

  • Kristan-Tollmann E (1986b) Foraminiferen aus dem rhätischen Kuta-Kalk von Papua/Neuguinea. Mitt österr geol Ges 78(1985):291–317

    Google Scholar 

  • Kristan-Tollmann E (1990) Rhät-Foraminiferen aus dem Kuta-Kalk des Gurumugl-Riffes in Zentral-Papua/Neuguinea. Mitt Österr Geol Ges 82:211–289

    Google Scholar 

  • Kristan-Tollmann E, Tollmann A, Hamedani A (1979) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Trias von Persien. I. Revision der Triasgliederung, Rhätfazies im Raum von Isfahan und Kössener Fazieseinschlag bei Waliabad SE Abadeh. Mitt österr geol Ges 70:119–186

    Google Scholar 

  • Kristan-Tollmann E, Tollmann A, Hamedani A (1980) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Trias von Persien. II. Zur Rhätfauna von Bagerabad bei Isfahan (Korallen, Ostracoden). Mitt österr geol Ges 73:163–235

    Google Scholar 

  • Loeblich AR Jr, Tappan H (1988) Foraminiferal genera and their classification. Vol. 1 + 2, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York

  • Márquez L, Calvet F, Arnal I, Trifonova E (1994) Associación de foraminíferos en la Formación Isábena, Triásico superior Sudpirenaico (Espana). Bol R Soc Esp Hist Nat (Soc Geol) 89:189–197

    Google Scholar 

  • Martini R, Gandin A, Zaninetti L (1989) Sedimentology, stratigraphy and micropaleontology of the Triassic evaporitic sequence in the subsurface of Boccheggiano and in some outcrops of southern Toscana (Italy). Riv Ital Paleont Stratigr 95:3–28

    Google Scholar 

  • Martini R, Vachard D, Zaninetti L, Cirilli S, Cornée JJ, Lathuilière B, Villeneuve M (1997) Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and micropalaeontology of the Upper Triassic reefal series in Eastern Sulawesi (Indonesia). Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimat Palaeoecol 128:157–174

    Google Scholar 

  • Matzner Ch (1986) Die Zlambach-Schichten (Rhät) in den Nördlichen Kalkalpen: Eine Plattform-Hang-Beckenentwicklung mit allochthoner Karbonatsedimentation. Facies 14:1–104

    Google Scholar 

  • Maurer F, Rettori R, Martini R (2007) Triassic stratigraphy, facies and evolution of the Arabian shelf in the northern United Arab Emirates. Intern J Earth Sci 97:765–784

    Google Scholar 

  • Miconnet P, Ciarapica G, Zaninetti L (1983) Faune à foraminifères d’affinité sud-téthysienne dans l’Apennin méridional (Bassin de Lagonegro, Province de Potenza, Italie); Comparision avec l’Apenniin septentrional. Rev Paléobiol 2:131–147

    Google Scholar 

  • Nützel A, Senowbari-Daryan B (1999) Gastropods from the Late Triassic Nayband Formation of central Iran. Beringeria 23:93–132

    Google Scholar 

  • Nützel A, Senowbari-Daryan B, Hamedani A (2003) Some Late Triassic gastropods from the Nayband Formation in Central Iran. Facies 48:127–134

    Google Scholar 

  • Oberhauser R (1957) Ein Vorkommen von Trocholina und Paratrocholina in der ostalpinen Trias. Jb Geol B-A 100:257–267

    Google Scholar 

  • Okay AI, Altiner D (2004) Uppermost Triassic Limestone in the Karakaya Complex–Stratigraphic and tectonic significance. Turkish J Earth Sic 13:187–199

    Google Scholar 

  • Okay AI, Altiner D (2007) A condensed Mesozoic succession north of Izmir: a fragment of the Anatolide-Tauride Platform in the Bornova Flysch Zone. Turkish J Earth Sci 16:257–279

    Google Scholar 

  • Oravecz-Scheffer A (1987) Triassic foraminifers on the Transdanubian Central Range. Geol Hungarica, ser Paleontologica 50:1–134

    Google Scholar 

  • Paazlow R (1917) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Foraminiferenfauna der Schwammergel des Unteren Weissen Jura in Süddeutschland. Abh naturhistor Ges Nürnberg 19:201–248

    Google Scholar 

  • Paazlow R (1922) Die Foraminiferen der Parkinsoni-Mergel von Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm. Abh naturhistor Ges Nürnberg 22:1–10

    Google Scholar 

  • Papp A, Turnovsky K (1970) Anleitung zur biostratigraphischen Auswertung von Gesteinsschliffen. Jb Geol B-A Sonderband 16:1–50

    Google Scholar 

  • Passerini P, Pirini C (1965) Stratigraphia del Mesozoico e dell`Eocene della “Serie Toscana” nella zone di Manciano e Montemerano (Grosseto). Boll Soc Geol Ital 84:331–354

    Google Scholar 

  • Peybernès B, Martini R, Zaninetti L (1991) Les foraminifères benthiqes du Trias Carbonaté (Ladinien?-Carnien et Rhétien) de Corse. Geobios 24:683–696

    Google Scholar 

  • Piller WE (1978) Involutinacea (Foraminifera) der Trias und des Lias. Beiträge Paläont Österr 5:1–164

    Google Scholar 

  • Piller WE (1983) Remarks on the Suborder Involutinina Hohenegger and Piller, 1977. J Foram Res 13:191–201

    Google Scholar 

  • Pirini C (1966) Alcuni foraminiferi dei calcari Liassici di Montemerano – Grosseto. Palaeontogr Ital 60, n ser 30(1965):89–98

    Google Scholar 

  • Reuss AE, Fritsch A (1861) Verzeichniss von 100 Gypsmodellen von Foraminiferen, welche unter der Leitung des Prof. Dr. A. Reuss und Dr. Anton Fritsch gearbeitet wurden. Prague: Karl Seyfried

  • Röhl U, Dumont T, von Rad U, Martini R, Zaninetti L (1991) Upper Triassic Tethyan carbonate of Northwest Australia (Wombat Plateau, ODP Leg 122). Facies 25:211–252

    Google Scholar 

  • Roniewicz E, Mandl GW, Ebli O, Lobitzer H (2007) Early Norian scleractinian corals and microfacies data of the Dachstein Limestone of Feisterscharte, southern Dachstein Plateau (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria). Jb Geol B-A 147(3+4):577–594

    Google Scholar 

  • Salaj J, Borza K, Samuel O (1983) Triassic foraminifers of the West Carpathians. Geol Ustava Dionyza Stura, 213 p, Bratislava

  • Samuel O, Salaj J, Borza K (1981) Bispiranella nov. gen. (Foraminifera) from upper Triassic of west Carpathians. Západ Karpaty, ser Paleont 6:87–91

    Google Scholar 

  • Schäfer P, Senowbari-Daryan B (1978) Die Häufigkeitsverteilung der Foraminiferen in drei oberrhätischen Riff-Kopmplexen der Nördlichen Kalkalpen (Salzburg, Österreich). Verh Geol B-A, Jg 1978:73–96

    Google Scholar 

  • Schäfer P, Senowbari-Daryan B, Hamedani A (2003) Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Upper Triassic (Norian–Rhaetian) Nayband Formation, Central Iran. Facies 49:135–150

    Google Scholar 

  • Schlumberger C (1898) Note sur Involutina conica n. sp. Feuille jeunes Nat 3(28):150–151

    Google Scholar 

  • Schröder M (1988) Stratigraphische und fazielle Untersuchungen der Obertrias bis Unterkreide am Nordrand der Karawanken zwischen St. Margareten im Rosental und Abtei (Kärnten). Jb Geol B-A 131:133–151

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B (1983) Zur Gattung Pseudocucurbita Borza and Samuel, 1978 (= pro Cucurbita Jablonský, 1973) und Beschreibung vergleichbarer problematischer Organismen aus der Obertrias des alpin-mediterranen Raumes. Riv Ital Paleont 88:181–250

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B (1996) Upper Triassic reefs and reef communities of Iran. Göttinger Arb Geol Paläont Sb 2:299–304

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B (2003a) Peronidellen (Schwämme) aus der Trias und Beschreibung von Peronidella iranica n. sp. aus der Obertrias (Nor-Rhät) des Iran und von Österreich. Jb Geol B-A 143:63–72

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B (2003b) Micropaleontology of limestone beds within the Shotori Dolomite (Triassic) of Kuh-e Nayband, Tabas area, East-Central Iran. Facies 48:115–126

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B (2004) Tabasosphaera pustulata nov. gen., nov. sp., a microproblematicum (foraminifer?) from the Upper Triassic (Norian–Rhaetian) reef limestones of Nayband Formation (NE Iran). Studia Univ Babes-Bolyai. Geologia 49:85–94

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B (2005a) Inozoide Schwämme aus obertriassischen (Nor-Rhät) Riffen der Nayband-Formation (Zentraliran). Senckenb Lethaea 85:261–299

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B (2005b) Hypercalcified sphinctozoan sponges from Upper Triassic (Norian–Rhaetian) reefs of the Nayband Formation (Central and Northeast Iran). Jb Geol B-A 145:171–277

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B, Hamedani A (1999) Thalamid sponges from the Upper Triassic (Norian–Rhaetian) Nayband Formation near Wali Abad, SE Abadeh, Central Iran. Riv Ital Paleont Stratigr 105:79–100

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B, Hamedani A (2000) Obertriadische (Nor) Dasycladaceen aus der Nayband-Formation vom Zentraliran. Rev Paléobiol Genève 19:97–121

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B, Seyed-Emami K, Aghanabati A (1997) Some inozoid sponges from Upper Triassic (Norian–Rhaetian) Nayband Formation of central Iran. Riv Ital Paleont Stratigr 103:293–322

    Google Scholar 

  • Senowbari-Daryan B, Torabi H, Rashidi K (2008) New solenoporaceans from the Upper Triassic-Liassic? Reef limestones in central Iran. Geol Croatica 61:135–157

    Google Scholar 

  • Seyed-Emami K (2003) Triassic in Iran. Facies 48:91–106

    Google Scholar 

  • Stampfli G, Zaninetti L, Brönnimann P, Jenny-Deshusses C, Stampfli-Vuille V (1976) Trias de l’Elburz oriental, Iran. Stratigraphie, sedimentologie, micropaléontologie. Riv Ital Paleont Stratigr 82:467–500

    Google Scholar 

  • Sudar M (1986) Triassic microfossils and biostratigraphy of the inner Dinarids between Gucevo and Ljubisnja Mts., Yugoslavia. Ann Géol Péninsule Balkanique 50:151–394

    Google Scholar 

  • Tollmann A (1976) Analyse des klassischen nordalpinen Mesozoikums. 580 p, Franz Deuticke, Wien

  • Trifonova E (1993) Taxonomy of Bulgarian Triassic foraminifera. II. Families Endothyriidae to Ophthalmiidae. Geol Balcanica 23:19–66

    Google Scholar 

  • Vachard D, Colin JP, Hochuli PA, Rosell J (1990) Biostratigraphie: Foraminifères, Palynoflore et Ostracods du Rhétien de BAC Grillera (Pyrénées Orientales Espagnoles). Geobios 23:521–537

    Google Scholar 

  • Velledits F, Blau J (2003) The Büdöskút olistolith, an exotic limestone block from the Bükk Mountains (NE-Hungary). Facies 48:23–48

    Google Scholar 

  • Weynschenk R (1956) Aulotortus, a new genus of foraminifera from the Jurassic of Tyrol, Austria. Foraminiferal Res 7:26–28

    Google Scholar 

  • Zamparelli V, Iannace S, Rettori R (1995) Upper Triassic foraminiferes (Ammodiscidae and Aulotortidae) from the Scifarello Formation, S. Donato unit (Northern Calabria, Italy). Rev Paléobiol 14:399–409

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L (1969) Les foraminifères du Trias de la région de l‘Almtal (Haute-Autriche). Jb Geol B-A Sonderband 14:1–155

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L (1976) Les Foraminifères du Trias. Riv Ital Paleont 82:1–258

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L (1977) Sur quelques synonymes de genere Galeanella Kristan, 1958, un Foraminifére de la Téthys Triasique. Note Lab Paléont Univ Genève 2:1–3

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L (1984) Les Involutinidae (Foraminiferes): Proposition pour une subdivision. Rev Paléobiol Genève 3:205–207

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L, Altiner D (1983) „L’éffet de cavité” dans la paroi des foraminiferes porcelanes recristallises: Deux examples, les Millioliporidae (Galeanellinae et Pseudocucurbitinae) et les Nubeculariidae (Ophthalmidiinae). Rev Paléobiologie 2:9–11

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L, Brönnimann P (1974) Étude micropaléontologique comparée des Involutinidae (Foraminifères) des formations Triasiques d′Elika, d′Espahk et de Nayband, Iran. Ecl Geol Helv 67:403–418

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L, Martini R (1992) Cucurbita Jablonsky et Urnulinella Borza et Samuel (Foraminiferes) dans le Trias (Ladinian? Carnien) Mediterraneen en facies recifal: Morphologie et Taxonomie. Arch Sc Genève 45:23–42

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L, Brönnimann P, Bozorgnia F, Huber H (1972) Étude lithologique et micropaléontoloqiue de la formation D’Elika dans la coupe D’Aruh, Alborz Central, Iran Septentrional. Arch Sc Genève 25:215–249

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L, Brönnimann P, Huber H, Moshtaghian A (1978) Microfacies et microfauna du Permien au Jurassique au Kuh-e Gahkum, Sud-Zagros, Iran. Riv Ital Paleont 84:865–896

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L, Altiner D, Dager Z, Ducret B (1982a) Les Milioliporidae (Foraminiferes) dans le Trias superieur. A facies recifal du Taurus, Turquie. I: proposition pour une nouvelle subdivision. Rev Paléobiol Genève 1:93–103

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L, Altiner D, Dager Z, Ducret B (1982b) Les Milioliporidae (Foraminiferes) dans le Trias superieur. A facies recifal du Taurus, Turquie. II: Microfaunes Associes. Rev Paléobiol Genève 1:105–139

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti L, Martini R, Dumont T (1992) Triassic foraminifers from sites 761 and 764, Wombat Plateau, northwest Australia. Proc Ocean Drilling Program Sci Res 122:427–435

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

The investigations were conducted with the financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgeminschaft (DFG) to B. Senowbari-Daryan (Project: “SE 416/17-1”). We thank A. Hamedani (University of Esfahan) for his efforts during fieldwork and J. Blau (Gießen) for his help with the identification of some foraminiferal species and for a critical review of the first draft of this manuscript. Thanks are addressed to S. Noé (Erlangen), H. Baroon (Los Angles), M. Link (Erlangen), E. Anders (Bamberg) for improvements of the English text and for inspection of the manuscript. We also thank two anonymous reviewers and André Freiwald (journal editor), whose helpful comments improved the manuscript.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Geozentrum Nordbayern, Fachgruppe Paläoumwelt, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Loewenichstr. 28, 91054, Erlangen, Germany

    Baba Senowbari-Daryan

  2. Payame-e Noor University (PNU), Ardakan-Yazd, Iran

    Koorosh Rashidi

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Esfahan, Esfahan, Iran

    Hossein Torabi

Authors
  1. Baba Senowbari-Daryan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Koorosh Rashidi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Hossein Torabi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Baba Senowbari-Daryan.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Rashidi, K. & Torabi, H. Foraminifera and their associations of a possibly Rhaetian section of the Nayband Formation in central Iran, northeast of Esfahan. Facies 56, 567–596 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-010-0221-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-010-0221-5

Keywords

Search

Navigation