Mount Sayed Tabib North, central part, beds 25-27 (Devonian of Afghanistan)

Also known as Reef 1475

Where: Ghazni, Afghanistan (33.9° N, 67.9° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 106.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dewal Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• beds 25-27, 28-33 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified rudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84668: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

 Life -
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma afghanense Mistiaen 1985 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stictostroma uralense stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrocoilona sp. Yavorsky 1931 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes ex gr. verticillata stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Tienodictyidae
cf. Pseudoactinodictyon sp. Flügel 1958 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolitidae indet. Duncan 1872 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulostegites sp. Lejeune and Pel 1973 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllidae indet. Hill 1939 horn coral
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805