Mount Okak (Devonian of Afghanistan)

Also known as Reef 1476

Where: Ghazni, Afghanistan (33.9° N, 68.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 106.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cawak Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• bed 9, 6 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone 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 84664: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulostegites sp.
Aulostegites sp. Lejeune and Pel 1973 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp.
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
? Stromatopora sp.
? Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma sp.
Hermatostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes verticillata, Stachyodes dendroides
Stachyodes verticillata stromatoporoid sponge
Stachyodes dendroides stromatoporoid sponge