Where: Gilan, Iran (37.3° N, 49.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° S, 123.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Actonian to Actonian (454.0 - 448.8 Ma)

• The fauna is likely to be late Caradoc–early Ashgill in age (sensu Fortey et al. 2000). A more specific age assignment is not possible due to the absence of independent fossil evidence.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, red limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. S. Karim. 2009. Late Ordovician trilobites from northwest Iran and their biogeographical affinities. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 99:101-124 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232879: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.01.2024

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