Simeh-Kuh section, C-6 (Ordovician of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.2° N, 54.2° E: paleocoordinates 19.2° S, 144.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baltoniodus navis conodont zone, Raziabad Member (Qumes Formation), Dapingian (470.0 - 467.3 Ma)

• Collected from Unit L17.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified 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 116505: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 08.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Phragmodontidae
"Gothodus costatus" = Gothodus costulatus
"Gothodus costatus" = Gothodus costulatus Lindström 1955 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Trapezognathus sp. Lindström 1955 conodont
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Zhanatellidae
? Wahwahlingula spp. Popov et al. 2002
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Rowellella spp. Wright 1963
 Lingulida - Paterulidae
Paterula sp. Barrande 1879
 Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
Acanthambonia sp. Cooper 1956
Eosiphonotreta sp. Havlíček 1982
 Acrotretida - Ephippelasmatidae
Numericoma sp. Popov 1980
Aipyotreta conferta Ghobadi Pour et al. 2007
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
 Acrotretida - Biernatidae
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ningkianites sp. Lu 1975 trilobite