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

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