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fig. 12), as well as by a record of Taramelliceras flexuosum (von Buch) in
Fischer. Bogdanowitch (1890, pi. iv, fig. 5) figured a Peltoceras cf. bimammatum,
and to this zone apparently belong the Perisphinctids figured by
him.
LOWER OXFORDIAN
Probably of this age, if not Upper Callovian, are shaly marls with
Hibolites hastatus east of Kasvin (Furon, 1941, p. 250).
MIDDLE CALLOVIAN
As near Lake Urmia, the Reineckeia beds of the Anceps Zone are well
developed. Fischer records R. anceps (Reinecke), R. nodosa Till, R.
brancoi Steinmann, R. douvillei Steinmann, R. cf. greppini (Oppel), to
which he adds a new species, R. tilli Fischer; and Riviere (1934,
pi. v, fig. 7) gives a good figure of a Reineckeid (not, however, R.
multicostata Petitclerc). Fischer records a Kosmoceras sp. indet. and
Hecticoceras lunuloides (Kilian) and Riviere records H. lugeoni de Tsyt.
Perisphinctids from these beds include the doubtful P. persicus Fischer
and P. (Subgrossouvria) stahli Fischer. It is noteworthy that Fischer
(1915, pp. 227-9) records four species of Phylloceratids from these beds,
including two new species, IPtychophylhceras hafisi (Fischer) and Sowerbyceras
firdusi (Fischer).
From 22 m. above the base of the Jurassic limestone at Abandan, NE.
of Teheran, E. J. White and his colleagues collected a fauna consisting
mainly of Grossouvriae which is the same assemblage as that figured by
Weithofer and von dem Borne from near Lake Urmia. The dominant
ammonite (23 specimens) is Grossouvria cyrus (von dem Borne) (= Perisphinctes
lothari Weithofer, = P. poculum, v.d. Borne, = P. pseudolothari
Loczy). Next comes G. bucharica (Nikitin) (10 specimens, agreeing best
with Siemiradzki's 1894, pi. xxxix, fig. 5) ; with G. curvicosta (Oppel),
Choffatia cf. balinensis (Neumayr), Reineckeia straussi (Weithofer), R.
tetrameres (Weithofer non Borne), Hecticoceras metomphalum Bonarelli
(auct., exactly as in Borne, pi. i, fig. 4; = H. salvadori Couffon 1919 non
Parona & Bonarelli), and H. paulowi de Tsyt. Some of the same fauna was
also found 37-38 m. above the baseof the limestone atAbandan, Grossouvria
cyrus still predominating and Subgrossouvria cf. ornatilobata Spath added.
LOWER CALLOVIAN
The only indication of this so far is a record of Macrocephalites cf. pila
(Nikitin) 10 miles NW. of Jukar (Clapp, 1940, pp. 46, 47). M. pila is a
Pleurocephalites of late Macrocephalus or perhaps Koenigi Zone.
LOWER BATHONIAN
From scree from the basal 18 m. of the Jurassic limestone south of
Pardeh Mah, E. J. White collected a splendid series of ammonites which
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