Darehdehu, Zarigan-Chahmir basin: Ediacaran, Iran

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
? Radulichnus sp.
Chuaria sp. Walcott 1899
Cloudinidae
Cloudina sp. Germs 1972
Scyphozoa - Corumbellidae
Corumbella sp.
unclassified
Persimedusites chahgazensis Hahn and Pflug 1980
Kuckaraukia sp. Ivantsov et al. 2015
Kimberella persii Vaziri et al. 2018
Gibbavasis kushkii Vaziri et al. 2018
see common names

Geography
Country:Iran
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 55.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.7° North, 55.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ediacaran
Key time interval:Ediacaran Other zone: Nama
Age range of interval:635.00000 - 538.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kushk Member:Subunit 6
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: latest Ediacaran
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: grey, thin-bedded argillaceous shales (containing trace fossils) with intercalation of grey, medium-bedded sandstones and massive sulfide mineralization containing pyritic intercalations, and green tuffs. These grey argillaceous shales can often weather to green (as seen in much of the study area)
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:195106
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-07-20 04:59:09 Last modified:2020-05-06 17:01:41
Access level:the public Released:2018-07-20 04:59:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
65635. S. H. Vaziri, M. R. Majidifard, and M. Laflamme. 2018. Diverse assemblage of Ediacaran fossils from Central Iran. Scientific Reports 8(5060):1-7 [D. Muscente/D. Muscente]