Schachtessai Lower, Pamir, Tajikistan: Sevatian, Tajikistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Aculeachaetetes aculeatus
Demospongiae
Bauneia crassuparietes
Bauneia pamirica
Demospongiae - Anthaspidellidae
Stromatomorpha pamirica
Disjectoporidae
Aksopora tenuitrabeculata
Aksupora tenuitrabeculata Boiko
Pamiropora compacta
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli (Winckler 1861)
Chondrocoenia paradoxa (Melnikova 1968)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astraeomorphidae
Astraeomorpha minor Frech 1890
Astraeomorpha reimani Melnikova 1967
Astraeomorpha crassisepta Reuss 1854
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cuifastraeidae
Cuifastraea tenuiseptata
Cuifastraea granulata Melnikova 1983
Gillastraea delicata Melnikova 1983
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Tropidastraeidae
Chevalieria grandis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pamiroseriidae
Pamiroseris multiseptata
Pamiroseris meriani (Stoppani 1865)
Pamiroseris rectilamellosa (Winckler 1861)
Morycastraea eximia
Crassistella juvavica (Frech 1890)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Distichophyllia dichotoma
Retiophyllia clathrata (Emmrich 1853)
Coryphyllia gigantella
Palaeastraea grandissima (Frech 1890)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae
Margarosmilia mutligranulata
Margarosmilia minima
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
Stylophyllopsis cognatus
Stylophyllopsis rudis (Emmrich 1853)
Pamirophyllum pamiricum (Melnikova 1972)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Indopecten seinaamensis
Indopecten glaber Douglas 1929
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Cassianellidae
Cassianella gigantea
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Primatrigonia zlambachensis (Haas 1909)
recombined as Trigonia (Primatrigonia) zlambachiensis
Trigonia (Primatrigonia) zlambachensis Haas
see common names

Geography
Country:Tajikistan
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 74.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.9° North, 58.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Sevatian
Age range of interval:212.00000 - 205.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bortepa
Local section:17 Local bed:Below
Regional section:Shakhtesai
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "reef rocks"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 50-150 m thick Bortepa Fm. with greenish-gray, often coarse-grained gravelly sandstones and siltstones wtih beds, lenses of organogenic limestones, containing bioherms and biostromes.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 24
Database number:34647
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-09-15 01:53:05 Last modified:2003-09-15 05:48:46
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-15 01:53:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9166. V. I. Dronov and G. K. Melnikova. 1994. Facies zonation of the Triassic basin in the SE Pamirs. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172:275-282 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]