Caparay Ghar Section A, Bed 7, Wardak (Permian of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (34.1° N, 68.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 73.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wardak Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous, red, sandy limestone

• Red ferruginous sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Termier, H. Termier, A.F. Lapparent and P. Marin. 1974. Monographie du Permo-Carbonifère de Wardak (Afghanistan Central). Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon, Hors Série 2:1-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88266: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Spirigerella sp.1 Waagen 1883
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Fusispirifer legrandblainae2, "Neospirifer paucicostulatus" = Koenigoria paucicostulata
Fusispirifer legrandblainae2 Archbold and Thomas 1987
"Neospirifer paucicostulatus" = Koenigoria paucicostulata Reed 1925
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis cf. mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis, Martiniopsis sp.
"Tomiopsis cf. mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis Campbell 1960
Martiniopsis sp. Waagen 1883