Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region, Obisafitskogo Type, Rashnabolo Area (Devonian of Tajikistan)

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: Nizhnemagianskaya Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Upper Emsian; Nizhnemagianskaya Suite at the Rashnabolo Area.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

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 45826: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
 Styliolinida - Viriatellidae
Viriatella sp. Ljaschenko 1955
 Nowakiida - Crassilinidae
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
 Cystiphyllida - Holmophyllidae
? Holmophyllum sp. Wedekind 1927 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites alpina tabulate coral
Favosites tuimazaensis tabulate coral
Favosites saginatus tabulate coral
Favosites aculeatus tabulate coral
Favosites goldfussi Lecompte 1939 tabulate coral