Upper Devonian strata are distributed widely throughout Iran. A review of all available literature on the Devonian, together with information from recent studies in the Kerman region, provides a basis for correlation and description of facies successions for the whole country. In most sections the local base of the Upper Devonian sits disconformably on older rocks, whilst the upper contact with the Carboniferous is almost everywhere transitional. There is everywhere an apparent hiatus spanning a probable early and mid Devonian interval. Lower and Middle Devonian fossils have not yet been discovered, but for the Upper Devonian there are abundant fossil data indicating the widespread occurrence of Frasnian and Famennian shallow marine deposits. A palaeogeographical map for the Upper Devonian of Iran is constructed.
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