Both sides of dry river bed, ~300 m north of track, ¾ km WNW Banestan (Ordovician of Iran)

Also known as Bassett field collections Iran 98/17A-17E, 02/11A-11E

Where: Iran (30.9° N, 56.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.9° S, 141.8° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Katkoyeh Formation), Cheneyan (452.5 - 451.3 Ma)

• Fig. 2; Measured section through some 85 m of siltstones, calcareous mudstones and argillaceous limestones, subdivided into five collecting units. = Unit C of Bassett et al. 1999

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: argillaceous limestone

• siltstones, calcareous mudstones and argillaceous limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bassett

• National Museum of Wales

Primary reference: J. O. R. Ebbestad, M. G. Bassett, M. Dastanpour and L. E. Popov. 2008. Ordovician (Caradoc) Gastropoda of the Katkoyeh Formation, Kerman Province, Iran. Geobios 41(5):605-624 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84837: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.11.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Sactorthoceratidae
Sactorthoceras banestanensis n. sp. Dastanpour et al. 2006
NMW 2003.8G.1 (holotype), 2003.8G.2 to 2003.8G.12 (all are paratypes)
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Slehoferia pachyta Ebbestad et al. 2008 snail