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Fig. 8

From: Coral fauna across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran

Fig. 8

Paleogeographic distribution of the Iranian species during the Maastrichtian. X = Iranian corals (Tarbur Fm., upper Maastrichtian; Kühn, 1933; Khazaei, et al., 2009; and current paper); 1 = Madagascar; 2 = India; 3 = Saudi Arabia; 4 = Turkmenistan; 5 = Bulgaria; 6 = Croatia; 7 = Hungary; 8 = eastern Serbia; 9 = Libya; 10 = Tunisia; 11 = The Netherlands; 12–13 = USA; 14 = Mexico; 15 = Jamaica; Paleocoordinates: X = 10°42′N, 45°18′E (Neyriz), 13°12′N, 43°12′E (Semirom); 1 = 29ºS, 36ºE; 2 = 33º30′S, 58º12′E; 3 = 8ºN, 38ºE; 4 = 33°N, 49°E; 5 = 29°42′N, 20°36′E; 6 = 28°N, 18°E; 7 = 32°N, 19°E; 8 = 31°N, 20°E and 32°24′N, 18°30′E; 9 = 20°N, 12°12′E; 10 = 24°N, 7°24′E; 11 = 43°24′N, 4°30E; 12 = 52°N, 75°W; 13 = 36°N, 76°W; 14 = 22°N, 75°W; 15 = 18°48′N, 72°30′W. Paleomap modified from Paleomap project Scotese [2014] at www.scotese.com. Paleocoordinates of the coral localities of Hungary and Tunisia estimated based on information provided by Paleobiology Database (paleobiodb.org); all others retrieved from Paleobiology Database (paleobiodb.org)

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