Where: Vardak, Afghanistan (34.3° N, 68.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 68.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Devalak Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified siliciclastic
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: S. S. Karapetov, V. L. Leleshus, and I. I. Sonin. 1975. Stratigrafiya i tabulyaty silura Afganistana [Stratigraphy and Tabulata of the Silurian in Afghanistan]. Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody, Otdel geologicheskiy 50(4):95-106 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79344: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Paleofavosites schmidti tabulate coral
Favosites favosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Favosites afghanicus n. sp. Karapetov et al. 1975 tabulate coral
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
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Heliolites interstinctus tabulate coral | |
"Catenipora exilis" = Halysites jacovickii
"Catenipora exilis" = Halysites jacovickii Fischer von Waldheim 1828 tabulate coral | |