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Early Cretaceous calcareous algae from central Iran (Taft Formation, south of Aliabad, near Yazd)

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A rich association of calcareous algae is described from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian–? Lower Aptian) deposits of the Taft Formation, located south of Aliabad (in the vicinity of Yazd, central Iran). The association mainly consists of dasycladaleans and bryopsidales (udoteaceans and gymnocodiaceans); additionally, rare “solenoporaceans” and cyanophyceans are present. Three new species are described: two are dasycladaleans (Pseudoactinoporella? iranica and Holosporella farsica) and one is an udoteacean (Boueina minima). Many of the described and illustrated algae are mentioned for the first time from Iran.

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Parts of this paper were written while one of the authors (I.I. Bucur) was visiting Erlangen. This visit was financially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which is warmly acknowledged. We also thank Roman Koch (Erlangen) for scientific and logistic support. K. Rashidi thanks the Ardakan Payame Noor University for supplying field equipment. We thank the two reviewers, M. A. Conrad and J.-P. Masse, for their remarks, which considerably contribute to improve the manuscript, and to Mike Kaminski and Franz Fürsich for language corrections.

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    Ioan I. Bucur

  2. Geology Department, Payame Noor University, 19395-4697, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

    Koorush Rashidi

  3. GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Fachgruppe Paläoumwelt, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Loewenichstr. 28, 91054, Erlangen, Germany

    Baba Senowbari-Daryan

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Bucur, I.I., Rashidi, K. & Senowbari-Daryan, B. Early Cretaceous calcareous algae from central Iran (Taft Formation, south of Aliabad, near Yazd). Facies 58, 605–636 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-012-0303-7

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