Where: Ghazni, Afghanistan (34.0° N, 68.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° S, 99.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cawak Formation (Nawar Group), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• beds 91-112
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone and lithified rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Mistiaen. 1985. Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores. Societe Geologique du Nord (11)1-381 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75117: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 24.09.2007, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Temnophyllum cf. chitralense horn coral | |
Hexagonaria sp. Gürich 1896 horn coral | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
Thamnopora cf. alta tabulate coral | |
Dendropora sp. Michelin 1846 tabulate coral | |
Coenitidae indet. Sardeson 1896 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Staphylopora "sp. 2" Le Maître 1956 chaetetid sponge | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Desquamatia sp. Alekseeva 1960
? Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951 | |
"? Metabolipa sp." = Gypidula
"? Metabolipa sp." = Gypidula Hall 1867 | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924
Cyrtospirifer ex gr. verneuili Murchison 1840 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |