Karkar (Jurassic to of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (36.0° N, 68.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 76.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Bathonian to Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• organogenic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Rossi Ronchetti and N. Fantini Sestini. 1961. La fauna Giurassica di Karkar (Afghanistan) [The Jurassic fauna of Karkar (Afghanistan)]. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 67(2):103-152 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85947: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Montlivaltia gregoryi Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
Montlivaltia hourcqi Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
Montlivaltia cyclolitoides Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Montlivaltia cornutiformis Gregory 1900 stony coral
subsp. crassa
Montlivaltia cf. caryophyllata Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Montlivaltia culullus Gregory 1900 stony coral
Montlivaltia cottreaui Collignon 1932 stony coral
"Montlivaltia decipiens" = Montlivaltia decipiens Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Montlivaltia numismalis" = Montlivaltia decipiens Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Chomatoseris porpites Smith 1816 stony coral
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris sp. d'Orbigny 1849
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Plagiostoma) cardiiformis" = Plagiostoma file clam
Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis Greppin 1867 file clam
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella echinata, "Oxytoma cf. inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
Meleagrinella echinata Smith 1819 scallop
"Oxytoma cf. inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
Camptonectes rigidus Sowerby 1818 scallop
Camptonectes annulatus Sowerby 1826 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina cf. rotundata Roemer 1835 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia cf. pullus Sowerby 1826 clam