Burj Limestone, Jordan - Cooper 1976 (Cambrian of Jordan)

Where: Jordan (32.5° N, 35.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 138.9° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Burj Limestone Formation, Caerfai (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic, gray limestone

• the formation is 65 meters in thickness, with 27.5 meters of basal unfossiliferous shale, overlain by 17 meters of hard crystalline dolomitic dark gray and purple limestone with thin bands containing indeterminable trilobite remains. above this is 14 meters of silisified, partly dolomitic, fine grained, and whitish limestone followed by a 6 meter cap of coarsely crystalline limestone.

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: Collection was loaned to G. A. Cooper by H. B. Whittington of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University, England. The specimens were originally interpretted by B.R. King, but were reinterpretted by G. A. Cooper.

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1976. Lower Cambrian brachiopods from the Rift Valley (Isreal and Jordan). Journal of Paleontology 50(2):269-289 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7823: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 03.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

• List does not include possible obloid brachiopods.
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Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Obolellata
 Obolellida - Trematobolidae
Trematobolus palaestinensis
Trematobolus palaestinensis Richter and Richter 1941
K
Kutorginata
 Kutorginida - Nisusiidae
Trematosia radifer
Trematosia radifer Richter and Richter 1941
J,L,M,N
Rhynchonellata
 Protorthida - Protorthidae
Psiloria alta, Psiloria dayi n. sp.
Psiloria dayi n. sp. Cooper 1976
N