Zeravshan Mountains, Kunzhak Formation (Silurian to of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (39.3° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.9° S, 74.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kunzhak Formation, Pridoli to Pridoli (423.0 - 410.8 Ma)

• Silurian-Devonian boundary beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Lavrusevich. 1971. Cheshuychatyye rugozy tsentralnogo Tadzhikistana [Fasciculate rugose corals from central Tadzhikistan]. in Rugozy i stromatoporoidei paleozoya SSSR [Paleozoic Rugosa and Stromatoporoidea of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (2)32-41 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78882: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Chonophyllidae
Ketophyllum sp. Wedekind 1927 horn coral
 Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
 Stauriida - Polycoeliidae
Amandaraia prima horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae
 Stauriida - Kodonophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
Cayugaea secunda horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
 Cystiphyllida - Holmophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphyllum ex gr. cylindricum, "Gyalophyllum angelini" = Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum), "Gyalophyllum asiaticum" = Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum)
"Gyalophyllum angelini" = Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum) horn coral
"Gyalophyllum asiaticum" = Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum) horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae