Mount Takhtakay: Givetian - Frasnian, Afghanistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae - Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
unclassified
Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Siphonophrentidae
Siphonophrentis gigantea
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Auloporidae
Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
Anthozoa - Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenitidae indet. Sardeson 1896
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801
Scoliopora informal sp. 1 Lang et al. 1940
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Atelodictyidae
Atelodictyon aggregatum
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona sp. Yavorsky 1931
Stictostroma sp. Parks 1936
Stictostroma saginatum (Lecompte 1951)
Stromatoporella granulata
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
? Hermatostroma sp. Nicholson 1886
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826
see common names

Geography
Country:Afghanistan State/province:Vardak
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 68.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.2° South, 101.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian
Key time interval:Givetian - Frasnian
Age range of interval:387.70000 - 372.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sin Ghar
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 18, 2-8 m thick
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified bindstone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 1477
Database number:84643
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-05 04:34:21 Last modified:2008-11-05 06:34:21
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25300. 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]