U17B, Gerd-Kuh Section. 15 m (Ordovician of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.2° N, 54.2° E: paleocoordinates 20.9° S, 142.8° E)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy siltstone and argillaceous shale

• siltstones and argillites

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: L. E. Popov and L. R. M. Cocks. 2017. The World’s second oldest strophomenoid-dominated benthic assemblage in the first Dapingian (Middle Ordovician) brachiopod fauna identified from Iran. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 140:1-12 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193475: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Dirafinesquina globosa Cocks and Zhan 1998
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Dulankarella hyrcanica
[Dulankarella hyricanica]