Where: Turkey (37.3° N, 49.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 124.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lagenochitina dalbyensis other zone, Lower Shale Member (Bedinan Formation), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• "The lowest fossiliferous horizon in the Bedinan Formation was found 0.5 m above its base at loc. Yo. 242... About 46 m higher in the succession, at loc. Yo. 243A, the fauna was more varied..." Chitinozoan zone based on Armoricochitina granulifera, which is common in the Lagenochitina dalbyensis zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, gray, green shale and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W.T. Dean. 1983. Additional faunal data for the Bedinan Formation (Ordovician) of south-eastern Turkey. Special Papers in Palaeontology 30:89-105 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64548: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 10.09.2006

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