Here, we provide a detailed facies and depositional record from a NE-SW-directed, 250-km-long transect across a distally steepened, Middle Jurassic carbonate ramp in the northern Tethyan realm (Iran). Among the six main facies types described, two stand out because of their beyond-regional significance: (i) Middle Callovian microbial and microbial-skeletal mounds embedded in muddy intermound sediment and (ii) Upper Callovian conglomeratic debris-flow deposits truncating the mound unit. The mound features described here did not evolve into reefal structures and evidence for a framestone structure is lacking. They occur as low-relief, mud-dominated domical structures (a few metres wide). The development of the Middle Callovian mounds is perhaps best linked to a period of minimum sedimentation rates and sufficient accommodation space resulting from a long-term gradual sea-level rise commencing in the Late Bajocian. With respect to the Upper Callovian conglomeratic deposits overlying the mound interval, the absence of sedimentary structures such as grading, the nature of the sub-angular or rounded clasts and the very poor sorting are indicative of a catastrophic debris flow origin. Based on data compiled here, the conglomeratic deposits likely formed due to relative sea-level fall inducing the reworking of mound facies by the lowered wave base and currents, and basinward transport of reworked material to the distal outer ramp. Our findings are compared with coeval deposits from the western Tethyan domain and placed into a process-oriented context. The described northern Tethyan Late Bajocian to Middle Callovian deepening-upward trend, followed by relative sea-level fall in the Late Callovian near the Middle-Late Jurassic transition, is in agreement with observations from other coeval Tethyan basins/platforms. Data shown here have wider relevance for workers concerned with the Jurassic evolution of the Tethyan Ocean in general and shed light on the intricate relation of changes in accommodation space and ramp architecture.