Also known as Reef 1477
Where: Vardak, Afghanistan (34.2° N, 68.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.0° S, 106.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sin Ghar Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• units 10 (3 m thick) and 11 (10 m thick)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone 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 84648: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Brachiopoda | |
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Coenitidae indet. Sardeson 1896 tabulate coral | |
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Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Crassialveolites sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral | |
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Pachyfavosites sp. Sokolov 1952 tabulate coral | |
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Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
? Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral | |
| Stromatoporoidea | |
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? Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge | |
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Clathrocoilona sp. Yavorsky 1931 stromatoporoid sponge | |
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Hermatostroma schlueteri stromatoporoid sponge
? Hermatostroma afghanense Mistiaen 1985 stromatoporoid sponge | |
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Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge | |