Middle Ordovician cephalopods from the Abarsaj area, northern Iran

Four cephalopod taxa are described from the Abastu Formation at a locality near the village of Abarsaj, northern Iran. The described fauna includes Orthocerida indet, Eosomichelinoceras sp., Proterovaginoceras incognitum? and Sactorthoceras sp. suggesting a late Dapingian to Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) age of the strata. The reported assemblage belongs to an open marine faunal association and its composition suggests a close affinity with those of Baltica and South China.

Publication Details

  • Type

    Journal Article

  • Title

    Middle Ordovician cephalopods from the Abarsaj area, northern Iran

  • Year

    2014

  • Author(s)

    Bogolepova, O.K., Kröger, B., Falahatgar, M. and Javidan, M.

  • Journal

    GFF

  • Volume

    136

  • Issue

    1

  • Page(s)

    34-37

  • URL

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2014.898328

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