Table 6 Newly and previously (Khazaei, et al., 2009; Kühn, 1933) reported coral species from Iranian K/Pg-localities, characteristics of their skeletal elements, and their stratigraphic and geographic ranges

Acropora bancellsae

Plocoid; small

Columnar, ramose

X

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒Thanetian

Iran

Middle Eocene of Spain

Actinacis barretti

Plocoid; small

Submassive

X

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒Thanetian

Iran, Italy (T), Puerto Rico (D), USA (T)

Middle Eocene of Jamaica and Mexico, Upper Oligocene of Mexico

Actinacis reussi

Plocoid; small

?Submassive

X

Maastrichtian‒Thanetian

Iran, Jamaica (M), Spain (D, T)

Lower Coniacian of France, upper Coniacian‒Santonian of Austria, Santonian‒Campanian of Slovenia and Spain

**Agathelia asperella

Plocoid; medium

Massive

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒Thanetian

Iran, Slovakia (T)

Upper Cenomanian of the Czech Republic, Coniacian‒Santonian of Austria, Senonian of Slovakia, Santonian of Armenia and Greece, Campanian of Spain, upper Campanian‒lower Maastrichtian of Oman and UAE

**Aspidastraea orientalis

Circumoral; large

Cupolate

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒?Paleocene

Iran, ?Pakistan (P)

Santonian of Austria, upper Campanian‒lower Maastrichtian of Oman and UAE

Asterosmilia alloiteaui

None [solitary]; medium

Conical

X

Paleocene

Belgium (D), Iran

–

**Astraraea rosi

(cerio-) thamnasterioid; medium to large

Massive

X

Upper Maastrichtian

Iran

Santonian‒Campanian of Spain

Bathycyathus corneti

?None? [?solitary]; small to medium (here juvenile specimens at small size)

Conical

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒Danian

Belgium (D), Iran

–

Bathycyathus lloydi

?None? [?solitary]; medium

Conical

X

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒Thanetian

Greenland (D), Iran, USA (M)

-

**Cunnolites angiostoma

None [solitary]; large

Cunnolitid–cupolate

X

Maastrichtian

Iran

-

**Cunnolites cancellata

None [solitary]; large

Cunnolitid–cupolate

X

Maastrichtian‒Selandian

India (M), Iran, The Netherlands (M, D), Pakistan (S), Saudi Arabia (?M), eastern Serbia (M)

Upper Campanian of Oman, eastern Serbia, and UAE

**Cunnolites giganteus

None [solitary]; large

Cunnolitid–cupolate

X

Maastrichtian

Iran, eastern Serbia (M)

Santonian‒Campanian of Slovenia, Campanian of eastern Serbia

**Cunnolites numismalis

None [solitary]; large

Cunnolitid–cupolate

X

Maastrichtian

Iran, Libya (M), The Netherland (M), eastern Serbia (M)

Cenomanian‒Santonian of France, Coniacian‒lower Campanian of Austria, Santonian of Romania and Spain, Campanian of Hungary and eastern Serbia

**Cunnolites scutellum

None [solitary]; large

Cunnolitid–cupolate

X

Maastrichtian‒Paleocene

Bulgaria (M), Iran, Jamaica (M), Pakistan (S)

Cenomanian of Ukraine, Turonian‒Campanian of Austria, Santonian‒Campanian of Slovenia, Campanian of Greece and Jamaica, Campanian‒Maastrichtian of Tibet

Faksephyllia faxoensis

Phaceloid, subdendroid; small to medium

Branching, often arborescent, bushy

X

Paleocene

Austria (P), Azerbaijan (D), Denmark (D), Greenland (D), Iran, Kazakhstan (D), Sweden (D)

?Eocene of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lower Oligocene of Austria Germany, ?Hungary, and Italy

**,(^*)Goniopora elegans

Cerioid; medium

Submassive-?incrusting

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒Thanetian

Iran, Italy (D), Pakistan (S), Slovenia (D, T), Turkey (T), Ukraine (D)

Upper Campanian‒lower Maastrichtian of Oman, Eocene of Bosnia, Egypt, Slovakia, Peru, Somalia, Eocene–Lower Oligocene of France, Italy, Spain, Lower Miocene of Egypt

**Goniopora imperatoris

Cerioid; small to medium

Massive

X

Maastrichtian‒Thanetian

Iran, Jamaica (M), Slovenia (D, T)

Upper Campanian of Oman, upper Campanian‒lower Maastrichtian of UAE, Oligocene‒Pleistocene of the Caribbean, Miocene‒Pleistocene of Central America, Miocene of Venezuela

Goniopora cf. microscopica

Cerioid; small

?Subramose

X

Maastrichtian‒Paleocene

Iran, Jamaica (M), Pakistan (S), Somalia (P)

Oligocene of Haiti, Upper Oligocene of Antigua

Heliopora incrustans

Plocoid; small

Small massive

X

Paleocene

Denmark (D), Iran

–

Lobopsammia cariosa

Dendroid; medium

Branching

X

Selandian‒Thanetian

Iran

Eocene of the Czech Republic, England, France, and Ukraine

**Monticulastraea insignis

Hydnophoroid; medium

Massive

X

Upper Maastrichtian

Iran

upper Campanian‒lower Maastrichtian of Oman and UAE, Lower Eocene of Pakistan Upper Eocene of Indonesia, Miocene of Iran, Pakistan, Somalia

**Neocoenia lepida

Plocoid; medium

Massive

X

Upper Maastrichtian

Iran

Turonian‒Campanian of Georgia, upper Turonian‒lower Coniacian of Austria, Santonian‒Campanian of Croatia and Slovakia, Campanian of eastern Serbia, upper Campanian‒lower Maastrichtian of Oman and UAE

Oculina conferta

Dendro-phaceloid; small

Branching

X

Paleocene

Iran, Slovenia (T), USA (P)

Lower Eocene of England

Pachygyra princeps

Meandroid; medium

Subflabellate to massive

X

Maastrichtian‒Paleocene

Iran, Italy (P), Jamaica (M), Pakistan (S), Slovenia (T)

Coniacian–Santonian of Austria, France, and Spain

**Palaeopsammia zitteli

None [solitary]; large

Conical

X

Maastrichtian‒Paleocene

Egypt (D, S), Iran, Libya (?M, P), Madagascar (M), Mexico (P), Tunisia (M), Turkmenistan (M, D), USA (M, P, S, T)

Albian of USA, Cenomanian of Madagascar, Santonian‒lowermost Campanian (Piripauan) of New Zealand, upper Campanian of Oman and UAE

**Paracycloseris nariensis

None [solitary]; large

Subpatellate

X

Maastrichtian

Iran, Jamaica (M), Madagascar (M)

Campanian‒Maastrichtian of Cuba and Jamaica, Upper Eocene of Pakistan

Placosmilia cf. fenestrata

Meandroid; medium

Flabelloid

X

Upper Maastrichtian

Iran

Coniacian‒Santonian of Austria

**Rennensismilia inflexa

None [solitary]; large

Conical

X

Maastrichtian

?Croatia (M), Hungary (M), Iran, ?Saudi Arabia (M), eastern Serbia (M)

upper Aptian‒lower Albian of Iran, Upper Cretaceous of Hungary, upper Turonian of Austria, Senonian of India and Romania, Santonian of Croatia, Santonian‒Campanian of Slovenia, Campanian of Saudi Arabia, Spain

**Stephanaxophyllia bicoronata

Plocoid, cerio-plocoid, submeandroid; medium

Massive

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒Paleocene

Iran, Somalia (P)

upper Santonian of France, upper Campanian of Bulgaria, upper Campanian‒Maastrichtian of UAE

Strotogyra copoyensis

Meandroid; medium

Flabelloid

X

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒Thanetian

Iran

Middle Eocene of Mexico

^Stylocoenia maxima

Cerioid; medium

?Subramose

X

X

Upper Maastrichtian‒ Paleocene

Iran, Pakistan (S)

–

Stylocoeniella expansa

Cerioid to cerio-plocoid; small

Ramose

X

Paleocene

Iran

Eocene of Italy, Middle Eocene of Bosnia-Herzegovina

^Stylocoeniella hoernesi

Cerioid to cerio-plocoid; small

Subramose, massive

X

Upper Maastrichtian

Iran

Middle Eocene of Croatia

Synastrea sp.

Thamnasterioid; medium

?Massive

X

Upper Maastrichtian

Iran

–

Trochoseris aperta

None [solitary]; large (here juvenile specimen at medium to large size)

Conical–patellate

X

Maastrichtian‒Lower Miocene

Iran, Jamaica (M), Mexico (M), Pakistan (S), Ukraine (D), ?USA (T)

Campanian of Cuba and Jamaica, Campanian–lower Maastrichtian of Saudi Arabia, Eocene–Oligocene of Jamaica, Eocene of Pakistan, ?Upper Eocene of Mexico, Eocene–Oligocene of Cuba, Oligocene of Panama, Lower Miocene of Pakistan and ?Brazil

**Trochosmilia sp.

None [solitary]; large

Conical–turbinate

X

Upper Maastrichtian

Iran

–

Turbinolia dickersoni

None [solitary]; small

Conical

X

Paleocene

Iran, USA (D, S)

Lower Eocene of Barbados, Eocene of Mexico, Ivory Coast, and USA, Upper Eocene of Colombia, Oligocene of Peru