Altimur, south of Kabul (Permian of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (33.7° N, 69.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 54.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neoschwagerina schuberti foram zone, Upper Member (Chohan Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Neoschwagerina schuberti Zone of Leven (1997)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Termier and G. Termier. 1971. Bryozoaires du Paleozoique superieur de l'Afghanistan. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 47:1-52 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81459: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Hyphasmoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Shulgapora cf. abundans Shulga-Nesterenko 1951
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Rhombofenestella rhomboidea" = Minilya rhomboidea Nikiforova 1938
Rugofenestella cf. oxovensis Shulga-Nesterenko 1951
Fenestrellina sp. d'Orbigny 1849
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
"Pustulopora mennessieri" = Polypora mennessieri, "Pustulopora timanica" = Polypora timanica, "Thamniscus dubius" = Synocladia dubia, Reteporidra eichwaldi
"Pustulopora mennessieri" = Polypora mennessieri Termier and Termier 1971
"Pustulopora timanica" = Polypora timanica Stuckenberg 1895
"Thamniscus dubius" = Synocladia dubia Schlotheim 1820
Reteporidra eichwaldi Nikiforova 1938
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
Hexagonella ramosa Waagen and Wentzel 1886
 Cystoporida - Goniocladiidae
Goniocladia afghana Termier and Termier 1971
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
"Tabulipora chaetetiformis" = Stenodiscus chaetetiformis
"Tabulipora chaetetiformis" = Stenodiscus chaetetiformis Waagen and Wentzel 1886
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae