Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region, Obisafitskogo Type, Bursykhirmanskaya Suite (Devonian of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (39.0° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.3° S, 73.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Bursykhirmanskaya Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Siegenian; The Bursykhirmanskaya Suite has a supposed thickness of 500m.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; dolomitic 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 45790: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 02.12.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
"Atrypopsis thetis" = Septatrypa, "Atrypopsis barba" = Septatrypa
"Atrypopsis thetis" = Septatrypa
"Atrypopsis barba" = Septatrypa
var. losvensis
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Holmophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
"Holacanthia delicatulum" = Aphyllum, Hillophyllum septatum
"Holacanthia delicatulum" = Aphyllum horn coral
 Stauriida - Pycnostylidae
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
 Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
  -
 Favositida -
Dendropora macropora tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora aff. alaiskensis stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora aff. messerschmidti stromatoporoid sponge
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Parathuramminidae