Dahaneh-e-Kolut, Derenjal Mountains, AH.9-108, Shirgesht Formation (Ordovician to of Iran)

Where: Iran (34.1° N, 56.8° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 149.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paroistodus proteus conodont zone, Second Member (Shirgesht Formation), Tremadocian to Tremadocian (485.4 - 470.0 Ma)

• sample AH.9-108 from the middle part of the Middle Carbonate Member, Tremadoc(-Early Arenig?). Middle Carbonate. This is "Member 2" in Ghaderi et al. (2009).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• sandy, marly red limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. L. Bruton, A. J. Wright, and M. A. Hamedi. 2004. Ordovician Trilobites from Iran. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 271(5-6):111-149 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66868: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Megalaspides winsnesi n. sp. trilobite
Gog sp. Fortey 1975 trilobite
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus cf. exarmatus Tjernvik 1956 trilobite
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
? Dikelokephalina sp. Broegger 1996 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Peltabellia sp. Whittington 1953 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Carolinites cf. ichangensis Lu 1975 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Brachyhipposiderus cf. logimus Jell 1985 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Neseuretus ghavideli n. sp." = Neseuretinus birmanicus
"Neseuretus ghavideli n. sp." = Neseuretinus birmanicus Reed 1906 trilobite