Where: Tajikistan (39.0° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 71.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Nizhnemagianskaya Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Upper Emsian; The Nizhnemagianskaya Suite has a thickness of 320m.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; cherty/siliceous limestone and black limestone

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 45793: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 02.12.2004

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