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Two echinoid species from the early Aptian (Early Cretaceous) of the Kopet-Dagh Basin, NE Iran

Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Young Researchers and Elite Club, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
Institutes for Earth Sciences, Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Institutes for Earth Sciences, Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Geological Survey of Iran, NE territory, Mashhad, Iran
Echinodermata Echinoidea Spatangoida Phymosomatoida Tetragramma Miotoxaster

Abstract

Two echinoid species from the Sarcheshmeh Formation, early Aptian, Lower Cretaceous, of the Kopet-Dagh Basin, NE Iran, are described: a phymosomatoid specimen of Tetragramma sp., and the spatangoid echinoid Miotoxaster collegnii (Sismonda, 1844). This is the first report of echinoids from the Sarcheshmeh Formation from northeastern Iran.

 

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