Fashand (Cambrian of Iran)

Where: Iran (36.0° N, 50.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 138.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mila Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Lower and Upper "Fragment Limestone-Sandstone Beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

• nodular limestone, marl and silty marl, sandstone interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Mostler and A. Mosleh-Yazdi. 1976. Neue Poriferen aus oberkambrischen Gesteinen der Mila-Formation im Elburzgebirge (Iran) [New Porifera from the Upper Cambrian Mila Formation in the Elburz Mountains (Iran)]. Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 5:1-36 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121298: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp., Chancelloria iranica n. sp., Archiasterella pentactina
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Chancelloria iranica n. sp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976
Nabaviella triradiata
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Nabaviella triradiata n. sp.
Nabaviella triradiata n. sp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976
Nabaviella elegans
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Nabaviella elegans n. gen. n. sp.
Nabaviella elegans n. gen. n. sp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976
Hexactinellida
 Lyssacinosa - Stiodermatidae
Rigbyella ruttneri n. gen. n. sp.
Rigbyella ruttneri n. gen. n. sp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976 glass sponge
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
? Eiffelia cf. hispanica