Where: Vardak, Afghanistan (34.3° N, 68.4° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 90.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Koh-e Giru Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• 35 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and lithified 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 84642: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.11.2008

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