Where: Iran (35.7° N, 51.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 15.2° S, 31.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Anabarites trisulcatus small shelly zone, Middle Dolomite Member (Soltanieh Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)

• The member is located 78 meters thick. AGE: Nemakit-Daldynian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Anabarites trisulcatus zone).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: B. Hamdi, M. D. Brasier, and Z.-w. Jiang. 1989. Earliest skeletal fossils from Precambrian-Cambrian boundary strata, Elburz Mountains, Iran. Geological Magazine 126(3):283-289 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10526: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.05.2001

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)