Also known as Reef 1477
Where: Vardak, Afghanistan (34.3° N, 68.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.9° S, 106.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Badragha Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• unit 4 (8 m thick) and unit 5 (10 m thick), Upper Givetian-?Lower Frasnian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone and lithified rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84627: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Scoliopora "sp. 1" Lang et al. 1940 tabulate coral | |
"? Trachypora sp." = Thamnoptychia, Thamnopora sp.
"? Trachypora sp." = Thamnoptychia Hall 1876 tabulate coral
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
Phillipsastrea hennahi horn coral | |
Hexagonaria cf. magna horn coral | |
Aulacophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral | |
Siphonophrentis gigantea horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stictostroma sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrocoilona sp. Yavorsky 1931 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Atelodictyon strictum stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fistuliporidae indet. Ulrich 1882 | |
Strophomenata | |
Douvillinidae indet. Caster 1939 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypacea indet. Gill 1871 | |
Atrypidae indet. Gill 1871 | |
Cyrtospirifer cf. verneuili Murchison 1840 | |
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unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Sphaerocodium | |
Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890 |