Where: Iran (36.1° N, 55.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° S, 92.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sarcheshmeh Member (Khoshyeilagh Formation), Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)
• Given as Upper Carbonate Member; this is now the Sarcheshmeh (Wendt et al. 2005. Acta Geologica Polonica 55:31-97; p. 44).
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: Z. Tolokonnikova, A. Ernst, and H. Yarahmadzahi. 2011. Frasnian bryozoans (Late Devonian) from the Khoshyeilagh Section, Alborz Mountains (northern Iran). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 85:393-405 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 126953: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.04.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
Bigeyella cf. mariae Morozova 1961 | |
Nicklesopora sp. Bassler 1952 | |
Saffordotaxis cf. multispinata Morozova 1955 | |
Schulgina sp. Morozova 1957 | |
Eridotrypella alborzensis n. sp. Tolokonnikova et al. 2011
Leptotrypella inaudita Morozova 1961 | |
Minussina akkayaensis Volkova 1974 |