Mount Tanabed: Givetian, Afghanistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Atelodictyidae
Atelodictyon aggregatum
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
? Hermatostroma cf. schlueteri
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Syringostromellidae
? Salairella sp. Khalfina 1961
Stromatoporoidea - Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma devonense
Actinostroma perlaminatum
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Phillipsastrea hennahi
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801
Crassialveolites sp. Sokolov 1955
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
? Pachyfavosites sp. Sokolov 1952
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
see common names

Geography
Country:Afghanistan State/province:Vardak
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 68.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.0° South, 106.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
Stage:Givetian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
Key time interval:Givetian
Age range of interval:387.70000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sin Ghar
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: beds 4 (5-8 m thick) and 6 (20-40 m thick)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified framestone
Secondary lithology: lithified grainstone
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:84645
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-05 05:15:01 Last modified:2008-11-05 07:15:01
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]