Where: Iran (36.2° N, 54.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.7° S, 149.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Drepanoistodus amoenus conodont zone, Simeh-Kuh Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Collected from Lashkarek Unit L11. Drepanoistodus aff. amoenus = lower Paroistodus proteus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, brown limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, M. G. Pour, M. G. Bassett and M. Kebria-ee. 2009. Billengsellide and orthide brachiopods: new insights into earliest Ordovician evolution and biogeography from northern Iran. Palaeontology 52(1):35-52 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116238: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011, edited by Melanie Hopkins

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