Where: Iran (36.0° N, 50.8° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 53.9° S, 71.6° E (Wright 2013)
• 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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Chancelloria iranica n. sp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976
Archiasterella pentactina Sdzuy 1969 | |
Hexactinellida | |
Rigbyella ruttneri n. gen. n. sp.
Rigbyella ruttneri n. gen. n. sp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976 glass sponge | |
Nabaviella elegans | |
Nabaviella elegans n. gen. n. sp.
Nabaviella elegans n. gen. n. sp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976 | |
Nabaviella triradiata | |
Nabaviella triradiata n. sp.
Nabaviella triradiata n. sp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976 | |
Heteractinida | |
? Eiffelia cf. hispanica Sdzuy 1969 |