Khoshyeilagh, Alborz Mountains (Devonian of Iran)

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

• quiet and shallow conditions in a normal salinity basin
• bioclastic limestone and 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

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata -
Bigeyella cf. mariae Morozova 1961
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Nicklesopora sp. Bassler 1952
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
 Trepostomida -
Schulgina sp. Morozova 1957
 Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
Eridotrypella alborzensis n. sp. Tolokonnikova et al. 2011
Leptotrypella inaudita Morozova 1961
 Trepostomida -
Minussina akkayaensis Volkova 1974