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Conodont stratigraphy and conodont biofacies of the shallow-water Kuh-e-Bande-Abdol-Hossein section (SE Anarak, Central Iran)

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The Middle to Upper Devonian Kuh-e-Bande-Abdol-Hossein section in eastern Central Iran is an overall shallow marine, nearshore to open marine facies setting that contains a highly variable conodont record generally characterised by an Icriodid-Polygnathid biofacies. The lithology and the palaeoenvironmental setting is similar to other localities in Central Iran and exhibits numerous hiatuses. A continuous biostratigraphic record could not be established, but the section preserves the Givetian/Frasnian boundary. Based on the conodont record, major gaps also occur in the Famennian which confirms earlier results reported from other sections of similar palaeoenvironments in Central Iran.

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We thank both reviewers Thomas Suttner (Vienna, Austria) and Jeff Over (Geneseo, NY, USA) for their constructive comments.

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The authors thank the University of Isfahan, IR Iran, for financial and logistic support. Funding by the second author (P.K.) is acknowledged by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Project KO-1622/16-1).

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Bahrami, A., Königshof, P., Vaziri-Moghaddam, H. et al. Conodont stratigraphy and conodont biofacies of the shallow-water Kuh-e-Bande-Abdol-Hossein section (SE Anarak, Central Iran). Palaeobio Palaeoenv 99, 477–494 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-019-00384-5

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