Pn-5. The Deh-Molla area, c. 1 km north-east of the Qalyankesh Mountain (Cambrian of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.4° N, 54.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 54.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Alborsella trilobite zone, Deh-Molla Formation (Mila Group), Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Was Mila Formation member 4; this is now Deh Molla

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, M. Ghobadi Pour, M. R. Kebriah-Ee Zadeh and S. Shahbeik. 2011. First record of silicified Cambrian (Furongian) rhynchonelliform brachiopods from the Mila Formation, Alborz Range, Iran. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 42:193-207 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186034: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Eostrophiidae
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Billingsellidae
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae