PBDB Collection

Karkar (Jurassic to of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (36.0° N, 68.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 76.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Bathonian to Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• organogenic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Rossi Ronchetti and N. Fantini Sestini. 1961. La fauna Giurassica di Karkar (Afghanistan) [The Jurassic fauna of Karkar (Afghanistan)]. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 67(2):103-152 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85947: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
Pectinida - Pectinoidae	Camptonectes sp., Camptonectes annulatus, Camptonectes rigidus Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop Camptonectes annulatus Sowerby 1826 scallop Camptonectes rigidus Sowerby 1818 scallop
Pectinida - Oxytomidae	Meleagrinella echinata, "Oxytoma cf. inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Meleagrinella echinata Smith 1819 scallop "Oxytoma cf. inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
Pectinida - Limidae	"Lima (Plagiostoma) cardiiformis" = Plagiostoma, Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis, Pseudolimea duplicata "Lima (Plagiostoma) cardiiformis" = Plagiostoma file clam Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis Greppin 1867 file clam Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
Ostreida - Gryphaeidae	"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, Exogyra crassa "Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster Exogyra crassa oyster
Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae	Pholadomya hemicardia, Pholadomya cf. lirata Pholadomya hemicardia clam Pholadomya cf. lirata Sowerby 1818 clam
Pholadida - Corbulidae	Corbula aff. daghaniensis Corbula aff. daghaniensis Cox 1935 clam
Pholadida - Ceratomyidae	Myopholas acuticosta Myopholas acuticosta clam
Pholadida - Pleuromyidae	Pleuromya sp., Pleuromya uniformis Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
Lucinida - Lucinidae	Lucina cf. rotundata Lucina cf. rotundata Roemer 1835 clam
Trigoniida - Trigoniidae	Trigonia cf. pullus Trigonia cf. pullus Sowerby 1826 clam
Rhynchonellata
Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae	Acanthothiris sp. Acanthothiris sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae	Sphenorhynchia aff. plicatella Sphenorhynchia aff. plicatella Sowerby 1825
Anthozoa
Scleractinia - Comoseridae	Chomatoseris porpites Chomatoseris porpites Smith 1816 stony coral
Scleractinia - Thecosmiliidae	Montlivaltia sp., Montlivaltia cf. caryophyllata, Montlivaltia culullus, Montlivaltia hourcqi, Montlivaltia gregoryi, Montlivaltia cyclolitoides, Montlivaltia cottreaui, "Montlivaltia decipiens" = Montlivaltia decipiens, "Montlivaltia numismalis" = Montlivaltia decipiens, Montlivaltia cornutiformis Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral Montlivaltia cf. caryophyllata Lamouroux 1821 stony coral Montlivaltia culullus Gregory 1900 stony coral Montlivaltia hourcqi Alloiteau 1958 stony coral Montlivaltia gregoryi Alloiteau 1958 stony coral Montlivaltia cyclolitoides Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral Montlivaltia cottreaui Collignon 1932 stony coral "Montlivaltia decipiens" = Montlivaltia decipiens Goldfuss 1826 stony coral "Montlivaltia numismalis" = Montlivaltia decipiens Goldfuss 1826 stony coral Montlivaltia cornutiformis Gregory 1900 stony coral subsp. crassa