South Jordan, Fp 85/391 (Silurian of Jordan)

Where: Jordan (30.3° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 55.3° S, 113.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Nautiloidea Sandstone Formation, Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• Authors are confused: fauna seems Ordovician but lie above a definite Aeronian graptolite zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, burrowed, argillaceous sandstone

• [Reference is in German] "Platy" (plattigen) and "clayey (argillaceous?)" (tonigen) fine-grained sandstone (Feinsandsteinen) with...ripple marks (indet. wave or current) and trace- and body-fossils.

Primary reference: R. Wolfart, F. Bender, and V. Stein. 1968. Stratigraphie und Fauna des Ober-Ordoviziums (Caradoc - Ashgill) and Unter-Silurs (Unter-Llandovery) von Sudjordanien. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Beihefte 85:517-551 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3275: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 28.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Brongniartella benderi
Brongniartella benderi trilobite
n. sp.
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp.
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
"sp. sp."
 Heteroconchia - Lipanellidae
Goniophorina sp.
Goniophorina sp. Isberg 1934 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp.
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
"sp. sp."
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
"Bucanella aff. bohemica" = Tritonophon bohemica
"Bucanella aff. bohemica" = Tritonophon bohemica Perner 1903 snail
originally entered as "Bucanella aff. bohemica"
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula arabica