Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region, Turkp. Type, (Lower) Turkparidinskaya Suite (Devonian to of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (39.0° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 72.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Turkparidinskaya Formation, Pragian to Pragian (410.8 - 393.3 Ma)

• The Turkparidinskaya Suite has a thickness of 240-340m with a stratigraphic range of Siegenian-Lower Emsian. The listed fossils were collected in the lower part of the suite.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. I. Lavrusevich, V. I. Lavrusevich, and V. D. Saltovskaya. 1973. Daunton i nizhniy devon Zeravshano-Gissarskoy gornoy oblasti. The Downtonian and lower Devonian of the Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region. Sovetskaya Geologiya 12:10-25 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45830: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Pachyfavosites muralis tabulate coral
Favosites clarus tabulate coral
Favosites nikiforovae tabulate coral
Favosites alpina tabulate coral
Favosites forbesi tabulate coral
subsp. tuvaensis and korejanicus
 Favositida - Parastriatoporidae
Parastriatopora sp. Sokolov 1949 tabulate coral
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 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
 Cystiphyllida - Holmophyllidae
 Stauriida - Pycnostylidae
 Stauriida - Lykophyllidae
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Tiverinidae
Tiverina sp. Sokolov and Tesakov 1968 chaetetid sponge
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
? Hermatostroma astroides stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora ex gr. concentrica stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatopora ex gr. dybowskii stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon aff. planum stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrodictyon ex gr. savaliense stromatoporoid sponge
Crinoidea
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 Monobathrida - Hexacrinitidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae