Mount Sultali, unit 5 (Devonian of Afghanistan)

Also known as Reef 3891

Where: Vardak, Afghanistan (34.2° N, 68.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.9° S, 106.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baghalak Member (Badragha Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• unit 5, 3 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone and lithified framestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. Mistiaen. 1985. Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores. Societe Geologique du Nord (11)1-381 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84633: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.11.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stictostroma uralense stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Hexagonaria sp. Gürich 1896 horn coral
 Stauriida - Siphonophrentidae
cf. Siphonophrentis sp. O'Connell 1914 horn coral
Sphaerocodium
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Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890