Where: Tajikistan (39.0° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 71.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)
• Upper Emsian; In the Obi-Khundy Area this 150m thick siliceous (jaspe) layer mingles with the Nizhnemagianskaya Suite.
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments and limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: A. I. Lavrusevich, V. I. Lavrusevich, and V. D. Saltovskaya. 1973. Daunton i nizhniy devon Zeravshano-Gissarskoy gornoy oblasti. The Downtonian and lower Devonian of the Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region. Sovetskaya Geologiya 12:10-25 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45825: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.12.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Epiphyton | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Hermatostroma ex gr. cumpani stromatoporoid sponge | |
Idiostroma aff. colymensis stromatoporoid sponge | |
? Clathrodictyella ex gr. pulchra, Amphipora aff. karmakensis, Amphipora aff. alaiskensis, Amphipora spissa, Paramphipora ex gr. turkestanica, Paramphipora aff. dilucida, Paramphipora ex gr. rasilis
? Clathrodictyella ex gr. pulchra stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora aff. karmakensis stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora aff. alaiskensis stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora spissa stromatoporoid sponge
Paramphipora ex gr. turkestanica stromatoporoid sponge
Paramphipora aff. dilucida stromatoporoid sponge
Paramphipora ex gr. rasilis stromatoporoid sponge | |
Parallelopora sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Gerronostroma ex gr. concentricum stromatoporoid sponge
Gerronostroma ex gr. dragunovi stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Lyrielasma ex gr. chapmani horn coral | |
Tryplasma ex gr. aequabilis horn coral | |
Favosites goldfussi Lecompte 1939 tabulate coral
Pachyfavosites sp. Sokolov 1952 tabulate coral | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
Caliapora sp. Schlüter 1889 tabulate coral | |
Tentaculita | |
Turkestanella sp. Klishevich 1968 | |
Styliolina fissurella Hall 1879 | |
Crinoidea | |
Hexacrinites sp. Austin and Austin 1843 Sea lily | |
Rhodocrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Cupressocrinites sp. Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily |