South Jordan, Fp 85/391: Silurian, Jordan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
Bucanella aff. bohemica (Perner 1903)
recombined as Tritonophon bohemica
originally entered as "Bucanella aff. bohemica"
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847
"sp. sp."
Bivalvia - Lipanellidae
Goniophorina sp. Isberg 1934
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852
"sp. sp."
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula arabica
n. sp.
Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Brongniartella benderi
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]