Burgutsch-Tal, upper Visean, Dasht-e-Nawar (Carboniferous to of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (33.5° N, 67.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 82.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arundian to Arundian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Upper Visean

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1973-1974

Primary reference: G. Plodowski. 1968. Neue Spiriferen aus Afghanistan. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 49(2-3):251-259 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116393: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer incipiens n. sp. Plodowski 1968
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer subgrandiformis Plodowski 1968
Spirifer pentagonoides n. sp. Plodowski 1968
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Eomartiniopsis grandiformis n. sp." = Martiniopsis grandiformis
"Eomartiniopsis grandiformis n. sp." = Martiniopsis grandiformis Plodowski 1968
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Syringothyris afghanica Plodowski 1968
Syringothyris subcuspidatoides n. sp. Plodowski 1968