Shahrood, Abarsaj village (Ordovician to of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.6° N, 54.9° E: paleocoordinates 20.2° S, 143.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Abastu Formation, Dapingian to Dapingian (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• late Dapingian to Darriwilian

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• middle part of the section, represented by thin-bedded brownish limestone, c. 80m above the lower unconformity

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: O. K. Bogolepova, B. Kröger, M. Falahatgar and M. Javidan. 2014. Middle Ordovician cephalopods from the Abarsaj area, northern Iran. GFF - Geological Society of Sweden 136(1):34-37 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157543: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 23.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Bisonocerida - Proterovaginoceratidae
Proterovaginoceras ? incognitum
 Orthoceratoidea -
Orthocerida indet.
 Orthocerida - Sactorthoceratidae
Sactorthoceras sp.
Sactorthoceras sp. Kobayashi 1934
 Orthocerida - Baltoceratidae
Eosomichelinoceras sp.