Kunjak Stage, Unit 25, Isfara River S-D Section (Devonian of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (40.0° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 74.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal, shelly/skeletal, black, gray limestone

• "The investigated sections are found at the southern margin of the basin where limestones continuously accumulated during Upper Silurian and Devonian time.."
• "(25) Stratified limestones, mainly dark grey but varying from light grey to black, with bioherms; typical bioherms contain oolite-like structures...rock is organogenous-detrital...pelitomorphic..."

Primary reference: J. S. Biske, V. B. Gorianov, and M. A. Rzonsnickaja. 1977. Tien-Shan. In A. Martinsson (ed.), The Silurian-Devonian boundary IUGS Serie(5):227-237 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13981: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 06.05.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Cleistoporidae
Riphaeolites virgosus tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites kozlovskii tabulate coral
Favosites interstinctus tabulate coral
Favosites intricatus Pocta 1902 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora actuosa tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Pseudomicroplasma nesterowskii horn coral
genus name in quotes
Pseudomicroplasma devonica horn coral
genus name in quotes
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
 Stauriida - Lykophyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina steinhornensis Ziegler 1956 conodont
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Howellella ex gr. mercurii" = Spirifer mercurii
"Howellella ex gr. mercurii" = Spirifer mercurii Gosselet 1880
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Rhynchonellida - Innaechiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite