South Jordan, Fp 85/391: Silurian, Jordan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Plectonotidae
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Bucanella aff. bohemica
(Perner 1903)
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recombined as Tritonophon bohemica | ||||||||||
originally entered as "Bucanella aff. bohemica" | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Modiolopsis sp.
Hall 1847
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"sp. sp." | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Lipanellidae
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Goniophorina sp.
Isberg 1934
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Bivalvia
- Solemyida
- Ctenodontidae
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Ctenodonta sp.
Salter 1852
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"sp. sp." | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Trigonirhynchiidae
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Rostricellula arabica
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n. sp. | ||||||||||
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Homalonotidae
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Brongniartella benderi
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n. sp. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Jordan |
Coordinates: | 30.3° North, 36.2° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 55.3° South, 113.5° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
Period: | Silurian | ||
*Period: | Early/Lower Silurian | *Epoch: | Llandovery? |
Key time interval: | Silurian | ||
Age range of interval: | 443.40000 - 419.20000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Nautiloidea Sandstone | Local bed: | 85/391 | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Authors are confused: fauna seems Ordovician but lie above a definite Aeronian graptolite zone. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | current ripples,burrows lithified argillaceous sandstone |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Geology comments: [Reference is in German] "Platy" (plattigen) and "clayey (argillaceous?)" (tonigen) fine-grained sandstone (Feinsandsteinen) with...ripple marks (indet. wave or current) and trace- and body-fossils. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 3275 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-07-28 14:58:39 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:18 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
155. | R. Wolfart, F. Bender, and V. Stein. 1968. Stratigraphie und Fauna des Ober-Ordoviziums (Caradoc - Ashgill) and Unter-Silurs (Unter-Llandovery) von Sudjordanien. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Beihefte 85:517-551 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers] |