Where: Turkey (37.4° N, 43.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° S, 131.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Alborsella trilobite zone, Seydisehir Formation, Taoyuanian to Taoyuanian (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• sample Yo.159, unit f of the formation, Fengshanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty shale and lithified, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: W. T. Dean. 2006. Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobites of the Samur Dag area, south of Hakkari, southeastern Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 15:225-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133721: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.09.2012

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