Karkar (Jurassic to of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (36.0° N, 68.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 76.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Bathonian to Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• organogenic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Rossi Ronchetti and N. Fantini Sestini. 1961. La fauna Giurassica di Karkar (Afghanistan) [The Jurassic fauna of Karkar (Afghanistan)]. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 67(2):103-152 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85947: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Montlivaltia cornutiformis Gregory 1900 stony coral
subsp. crassa
Montlivaltia gregoryi Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
"Montlivaltia decipiens" = Montlivaltia decipiens Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Montlivaltia numismalis" = Montlivaltia decipiens Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Montlivaltia culullus Gregory 1900 stony coral
Montlivaltia cottreaui Collignon 1932 stony coral
Montlivaltia hourcqi Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
Montlivaltia cyclolitoides Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Montlivaltia cf. caryophyllata Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Chomatoseris porpites Smith 1816 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma cf. inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis, Meleagrinella echinata
"Oxytoma cf. inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
Meleagrinella echinata Smith 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
"Lima (Plagiostoma) cardiiformis" = Plagiostoma file clam
Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis Greppin 1867 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
Camptonectes annulatus Sowerby 1826 scallop
Camptonectes rigidus Sowerby 1818 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina cf. rotundata Roemer 1835 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia cf. pullus Sowerby 1826 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris sp. d'Orbigny 1849