Where: Iran (35.7° N, 51.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° S, 143.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Anabarites trisulcatus small shelly zone, Upper Shale Member (Soltanieh Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)

• The member is 40-212m thick and is coarser grained and thicker bedded than the lower shale Member. AGE: Nemakit-Daldynian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Anabarites trisulcatus zone).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous shale and lithified limestone

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: B. Hamdi, M. D. Brasier, and Z.-w. Jiang. 1989. Earliest skeletal fossils from Precambrian-Cambrian boundary strata, Elburz Mountains, Iran. Geological Magazine 126(3):283-289 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10529: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.05.2001

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