Simeh-Kuh section, A-1/3: Tremadoc, Iran

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia (Conophrys) simehensis
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus inflatus
Trilobita - Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Dactylocephalus mehriae
see common names

Geography
Country:Iran
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 54.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.7° South, 149.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian-Ordovician
Key time interval: Tremadoc
Age range of interval: 485 - 477.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Simeh-Kuh
Local section:Simeh-Kuh Local bed:A-1/3
Local order:no particular order
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Collected from Unit L3.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:116496
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:S. Kolbe
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-08 06:37:11 Last modified:2023-01-13 11:45:53
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-08 06:37:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37529. L. E. Popov, M. Ghobadi Pour, and M. Hosseini. 2008. Early to Middle Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from the Lashkarak Formation, Eastern Alborz Mountains, Iran. Alcheringa 32:1-35 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

83633 M. Ghobadi Pour, L. E. Popov, J. J. Alvaro, A. Amini, V. Hairapetian and H. Jahangir. 2022. Ordovician of North Iran: New lithostratigraphy, palaeogeography and biogeographical links with South China and the Mediterranean peri-Gondwana margin. Bulletin of Geosciences 97(4):465-538 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]