Loc. L - Wadi Saramuj [Burj Limestone] (Cambrian of Jordan)

Where: Jordan (32.5° N, 35.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 138.9° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burj Limestone Formation, Caerfai (530.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, cherty/siliceous dolomite

• LITHOLOGY: Hard dolomite with silicified fossils. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies description.

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: Collection was loaned to G. A. Cooper by H. B. Whittington of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University, England. The specimens were originally interpretted by B.R. King, but were reinterpretted by G. A. Cooper.

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1976. Lower Cambrian brachiopods from the Rift Valley (Isreal and Jordan). Journal of Paleontology 50(2):269-289 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86711: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Brachiopoda with limited charactersistic Trilobita. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, and with relatively modern nomenclature, with species resolution identifications where possible.
Kutorginata
 Kutorginida - Nisusiidae
Trematosia radifer Richter and Richter 1941
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolinae indet. King 1846