Darehdehu, Zarigan-Chahmir basin (Ediacaran of Iran)

Where: Iran (31.7° N, 55.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 55.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nama other zone, Subunit 6 Member (Kushk Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• latest Ediacaran

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; shale and sandstone

• grey, thin-bedded argillaceous shales (containing trace fossils) with intercalation of grey, medium-bedded sandstones and massive sulfide mineralization containing pyritic intercalations, and green tuffs. These grey argillaceous shales can often weather to green (as seen in much of the study area)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: S. H. Vaziri, M. R. Majidifard, and M. Laflamme. 2018. Diverse assemblage of Ediacaran fossils from Central Iran. Scientific Reports 8(5060):1-7 [D. Muscente/D. Muscente]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195106: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
 Life -
Chuaria sp. Walcott 1899 acritarchs
Kuckaraukia
  -
Kuckaraukia sp. Ivantsov et al. 2015
 Kimberellomorpha -
Kimberella persii Vaziri et al. 2018
Scyphozoa
  - Corumbellidae
Corumbella sp. jellyfish
Persimedusites chahgazensis
  -
Persimedusites chahgazensis Hahn and Pflug 1980
Cloudina
  - Cloudinidae
Cloudina sp. Germs 1972
Gibbavasis kushkii
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Gibbavasis kushkii Vaziri et al. 2018