Also known as Close to the Shahrud University mine at about 8.5 km north of the Kalat-e Molla village.
Where: Iran (36.4° N, 54.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 149.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Paltodus deltifer deltifer conodont zone, Lower Member (Deh-Molla U16 Formation), Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, medium-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: acetic,
• The nodules have been slightly etched with dilute acetic acid to free the moulds from their attached shells.
Primary reference: M. Ghobadi Pour, M. R. Kebriaee-Zadeh, and L. Popov. 2011. Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) brachiopods from the Eastern Alborz Mountains, Iran. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 60:65-82 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185925: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.05.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Nanorthis bastamensis" = Gondwanorthis bastamensis
"Nanorthis bastamensis" = Gondwanorthis bastamensis Ghobadi Pour et al. 2011 | |
Strophomenata | |
Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Lingulata | |
Diencobolus sp. Holmer et al. 2001 | |