Shahmirzad Member 3, Elburz Mountains (Cambrian to of Iran)

Where: Semnan, Iran (35.8° N, 53.3° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 53.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member (Mila Formation), Mayan to Mayan (504.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Data integrated for whole member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Hamdi, A. Y. Rozanov, and A. Y. Zhuravlev. 1995. Latest Middle Cambrian metazoan reef from northern Iran. Geological Magazine 132(4):367-373 [W. Kiessling/B. Bookhagen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22823: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 27.06.2002, edited by Britta Bookhagen

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
"Drepanura (Spinopanura) erbeni" = Neodrepanura
"Drepanura (Spinopanura) erbeni" = Neodrepanura trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Chelidonocephalus sp. King 1937 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
"Chuangia sp." = Schantungia, Prochuangia sp.
"Chuangia sp." = Schantungia Lorenz 1906 trilobite
Prochuangia sp. Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Kaolishaniidae
Kaolishania sp. Sun 1924 trilobite