SW Zeravshan Mountains (Silurian of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (39.2° N, 68.7° E: paleocoordinates 20.4° S, 76.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Lesovaya. 1971. Stromatoporoidei pogranichnykh sloyev siluria e devona Zeravshanskogo khrebta [Stromatoporoids from Silurian-Devonian boundary beds of the Zeravshan range]. 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)112-125 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78969: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Plectostroma sumsarense n. sp. stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon kirgisicum stromatoporoid sponge
Ecclimadictyon microfastigiatum Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
"Clathrodictyon microvesiculosum" = Ecclimadictyon microvesiculosum Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon microstriatellum stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrodictyon vesiculosum Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrodictyon boreale Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge