Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region, Turkp. Type, (Upper) Turkparidinskaya Suite (Devonian to of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (39.0° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 72.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Turkparidinskaya Formation, Pragian to Pragian (410.8 - 393.3 Ma)

• The Turkparidinskaya Suite has a thickness of 240-340m with a stratigraphic range of Siegenian-Lower Emsian. The listed fossils were collected in the upper part of the suite.

• group of beds-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 45831: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Lancicula alta Maslov 1956
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Caliapora cf. graciosa tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Pachyfavosites sp. Sokolov 1952 tabulate coral
Squameofavosites sp. Chernyshev 1941 tabulate coral
Favosites gregalis tabulate coral
Favosites stellaris tabulate coral
Favosites goldfussi Lecompte 1939 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Phillipsastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Paterulidae
Paterula sp. Barrande 1879
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
 Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
 Styliolinida - Viriatellidae
Viriatella sp. Ljaschenko 1955
 Nowakiida - Crassilinidae
Alaina sp. Ljaschenko 1966
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Crinoidea
 Cyathocrinida - Cupressocrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Hexacrinitidae
Hexacrinites sp. Austin and Austin 1843 Sea lily
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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus aivili graptolite
Monograptus yukonensis Lenz and Jackson 1963 graptolite