Simeh-Kuh section, C-10 (Ordovician of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.2° N, 54.2° E: paleocoordinates 20.8° S, 142.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lenodus pseudoplanus conodont zone, Hajiabad Member (Lashkarak Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Collected from Unit L22. (Renumbered L21).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and calcareous sandstone

• intercalated sandstone and siltstone with several thin beds of calcareous sandstone and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, M. Ghobadi Pour, and M. Hosseini. 2008. Early to Middle Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from the Lashkarak Formation, Eastern Alborz Mountains, Iran. Alcheringa 32:1-35 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116518: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 08.09.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Beyrichicopida - Ctenonotellidae
 Beyrichicopida - Ordovizonidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolidae indet. King 1846
 Acrotretida - Eoconulidae
Eoconulus cf. cryptomyus Gorjansky 1969
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae