Also known as Reef 1476
Where: Ghazni, Afghanistan (33.9° N, 68.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 109.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cawak Formation, Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)
• beds 9-20
• 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 84663: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Sphaerocodium | |
Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypacea indet. Gill 1871 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Anthozoa | |
Phillipsastreidae indet. Hill 1954 horn coral
Phillipsastrea ex gr. hennahi horn coral | |
Siphonophrentis gigantea horn coral | |
Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral | |
Coenitidae indet. Sardeson 1896 tabulate coral | |
Alveolitidae indet. Duncan 1872 tabulate coral | |
? Pachyfavosites sp. Sokolov 1952 tabulate coral
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Thamnopora cf. absurda tabulate coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Staphylopora "sp. 2" Le Maître 1956 chaetetid sponge | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Taleastroma yangdongi, Taleastroma boiarschinovi, Stromatopora cf. concentrica, Stromatopora huepschii
Taleastroma yangdongi stromatoporoid sponge
Taleastroma boiarschinovi stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatopora cf. concentrica stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatopora huepschii Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Gerronostroma lemniscum stromatoporoid sponge | |
Clathrocoilona obliterata Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge |