Mount Sultali, Koh-e Giru Formation (Devonian to of Afghanistan)

Where: Vardak, Afghanistan (34.2° N, 68.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° S, 93.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Koh-e Giru Formation, Frasnian to Frasnian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

• units 21-56, 300 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified, sandy limestone

• limestones and sandy limestones, partly crinoidal limestones, rich in brachiopods

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Mistiaen. 1985. Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores. Societe Geologique du Nord (11)1-381 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84635: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

Sphaerocodium
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Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890
Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes australe stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
? Plicochonetes sp. Paeckelmann 1930
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Douvillina cf. dutertrei Murchison 1840
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"? Centrorhynchus sp." = Sartenaerus, "Centrorhynchus charakensis" = Sartenaerus
"? Centrorhynchus sp." = Sartenaerus Özdikmen 2008
"Centrorhynchus charakensis" = Sartenaerus
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
? Araratella sp. Sartenaer and Plodowski 1975
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
? Adolfia sp. Gürich 1909
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily