Shor-Bulak-Say River, sample 147/4, Pamir Mountains (Permian of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (38.0° N, 74.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° S, 71.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bazardarian Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Four beds (2,4,6,8) within lower 3-meter-thick sandstone unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, gray, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone

• Brownish-gray clayey-calcareous sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T.A. Grunt in 1970

Primary reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev. 1978. Asselian ammonoids in the Pamirs. Paleontological Journal 12:32-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102492: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
Svetlanoceras notium Ruzhentsev 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Neoicoceratidae
Eoasianites grandis Ruzhentsev 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Adrianitidae
Emilites prosperus n. sp. Ruzhentsev 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Thalassoceratidae
Prothalassoceras solitum n. sp. Ruzhentsev 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Perrinitidae
Properrinites dmitrievi n. sp. Ruzhentsev 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Somoholitidae
Somoholites sp. Ruzhencev 1938 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae
Martoceras modestum n. sp. Bogoslovskaya 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Marathonitidae
Cardiella vetusta Bogoslovskaya 1978 ammonite
Almites multisulcatus Bogoslovskaya 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae
Agathiceras vulgatum Ruzhentsev 1978 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Metapronorites timorensis Haniel 1915 ammonite