Bed 41 of the Robat-e- Pai section, Afghanistan: Famennian, Afghanistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Productella baitalensis
Productella subaculeata (Murchison 1840)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer asiaticus
Cyrtospirifer archiaci
Cyrtospirifer quadratus
    = Cyrtospirifer orthogoniformis n. sp.
Brice 1999
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leptocaryorhynchus jamensis
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ripidiorhynchus kotalensis
Centrorhynchus charakensis
replaced by Sartenaerus
Pampoecilorhynchus sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Afghanistan State/province:Herat
Coordinates: 34.6° North, 62.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° North, 92.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Late/Upper Devonian
Stage:Famennian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 5
Key time interval:Famennian
Age range of interval:372.20000 - 358.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Robat-e-Pai Local bed:41
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: Bed 41 is 10m thick
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: light grey to dark grey limestone, very fossiliferous
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: section is inverted, with an average dip of 55 degrees to the north
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Originals are housed in the Geological Institute of the University of Kabul (GIFa/Fa).
Metadata
Database number:70156
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:J. Sessa
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-19 13:59:58 Last modified:2007-03-19 15:59:58
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-19 13:59:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23566. M. Farsan. 1981. New Asteropyginae (Trilobita) from the Devonian of Afghanistan. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 176(4-6):158-171 [A. Miller/J. Sessa]

Secondary references:

23565 D. Brice and M. Farsan. 1976. Brachiopods from the upper Devonian of Robat-e-Pai (Afghanistan). Discovery of the genera Ladogia Nalivkin, 1941 and Eoparaphorhynchus Sartenaer, 1961 (Rynchonellida). Annales de la Societe Geologique du Nord 96(3):225-232 [A. Miller/J. Sessa]
23564 D. Brice. 1999. New data on systematics of some Famennian spiriferid brachiopods from Afghanistan and Iran. Senckenbergiana lethaea 79(1):281-295 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/A. Miller]