Where: Vardak, Afghanistan (34.2° N, 68.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° S, 93.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Koh-e Giru Formation, Frasnian to Frasnian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)
• units 21-56, 300 m thick
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 84635: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sphaerocodium | |
Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Strophomenata | |
Douvillina cf. dutertrei Murchison 1840 | |
? Plicochonetes sp. Paeckelmann 1930 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Tylothyris" sp. North 1920 | |
? Adolfia sp. Gürich 1909 | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
"? Centrorhynchus sp." = Sartenaerus, "Centrorhynchus charakensis" = Sartenaerus
"? Centrorhynchus sp." = Sartenaerus Özdikmen 2008
"Centrorhynchus charakensis" = Sartenaerus | |
? Araratella sp. Sartenaer and Plodowski 1975 | |
Anthozoa | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stachyodes australe stromatoporoid sponge |