Simeh-Kuh section, C-9, C-9/1, C-9/3 (Ordovician of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.2° N, 54.2° E: paleocoordinates 20.8° S, 142.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lenodus variabilis conodont zone, Cheshmeh-Ali Member (Lashkarak Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Collected from Unit L19.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, M. Ghobadi Pour, and M. Hosseini. 2008. Early to Middle Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from the Lashkarak Formation, Eastern Alborz Mountains, Iran. Alcheringa 32:1-35 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116508: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 08.09.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
  -
Conodonta indet. conodont
was Lenodus pseudoplanus: but this doesn't appear until the next bed.
 Prioniodontida - Phragmodontidae
Gothodus cf. costulatus Lindström 1955 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Lenodus variabilis Sergeeva 1963 conodont
Baltoniodus medius Dzik 1976 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus calceatus Bagnoli and Stouge 1997 conodont
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolidae indet. King 1846
Rowellella spp. Wright 1963
 Acrotretida - Biernatidae
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Martellia sp. Wirth 1936
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida -
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932
 Orthida - Orthidae
Bastamorthis multicostata Ghobadi Pour et al. 2011
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus aff. tristani Brongniart in Desmarest 1817 trilobite
unclassified
  -
"Metazoa "indet. 1"" = Animalia
"Metazoa "indet. 1"" = Animalia Linnaeus 1758
was Eoconulus cf. cryptomyus: but this is misentered.