Ali Sang Section B, Bed 3, Wardak (Permian of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (34.1° N, 68.5° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 61.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: D Member (Wardak Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Murghabian Neoschwagerina simplex

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone

• Gres calcaires noirs, bioclastiques et ferrugineux, en bancs centimetriques a decimetriques tres onduleux, separes par des passees schisteuses gris-verdatre centimetrique

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Termier, H. Termier, A.F. Lapparent and P. Marin. 1974. Monographie du Permo-Carbonifère de Wardak (Afghanistan Central). Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon, Hors Série 2:1-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81406: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Tristix geinitzianus
Foraminifera
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Globivalvulina sp.
Globivalvulina sp. Schubert 1921
 Fusulinoidea - Boultoniidae
Boultonia sp.
Boultonia sp. Lee 1927
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
Pachyphloia cukurkoyi, Pachyphloia schwageri
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis plana
 Lagenina -
Langella ocarina
Langella ocarina Sellier de Civrieux and Dessauvagie 1965
 Lagenina - Ichthyolariidae
Ichthyolaria sp.
 Lagenina -
Pseudolangella fragilis
Pseudolangella fragilis Sellier de Civrieux and Dessauvagie 1965
 Lagenina - Protonodosariidae
? Frondina sp.
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Hemigordius sp.
Hemigordius sp. Schubert 1908
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Gymnocodium sp.
Gymnocodium sp. Pia 1927
Strophomenata
 Productida -
"Marginifera crassicostata" = Marginifera (Marginifera) typica
"Marginifera crassicostata" = Marginifera (Marginifera) typica Waagen 1884