Vostochniy Pshart River, Pamir Mts. (Carboniferous of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (38.2° N, 74.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° S, 77.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Alportian (322.8 - 321.8 Ma)

• Nm2a2 (corresponds to Alportian); Upper Namurian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: collected by V. I. Dronova

Primary reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1978. Namyurskii etap v evolyutsii ammonoidyey - Namurian stage, evolution of ammonoids. Trudyi paleontologicheskovo instituta 167:1-338 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68258: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 12.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

• Focus on ammonoidea.
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Daraelitidae
Epicanites sp. Schindewolf 1926 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Stenopronorites uralensis Karpinsky 1889 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Dimorphoceratidae
Paradimorphoceras sp. Ruzhencev 1947 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Syngastrioceras dronovi n. sp. Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Homoceratidae
Homoceras pamiricum n. sp. Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Delepinoceratidae
Proshumardites sp. Rauser-Tschernoussowa 1928 ammonite