1. Adams, T.D. and Bourgeois, F., Asmari biostratigraphy, Iranian Oil Operating Company, Geological and Exploration Division, 1967, Report no. 1074, pp. 1–37.
2. Adams, C.G., Gentry, A.W., and Whybrow, P.J., Dating the terminal Tethyan event, Utrecht Micropaleontol. Bull., 1983, vol. 30, pp. 273–298.
3. Akbar-Baskalayeh, N., Less, G., Ghasemi-Nejad, E., Yazdi-Moghadam, M., and Pignatti, J., Biometric study of late Oligocene larger benthic Foraminifera (Lepidocyclinidae and Nummulitidae) from the Qom Formation, Central Iran (Tajar-Kuh section), J. Paleontol., 2020, vol. 94, pp. 593–615.
4. Bassi, D., Braga, J.C., and Iryu, Y., Palaeobiogeographic patterns of a persistent monophyletic lineage: Lithophyllum pustulatum species group (Corallinaceae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta), Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 2009, vol. 284, pp. 237–245.
5. Behforouzi, E. and Safari, A., Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Qom Formation in Chenar area (northwestern Kashan), Iran, Rev. Mex. Cienc. Geol., 2011, vol. 28, pp. 555–565.