Mount Bokan West, beds 1-53 (Devonian of Afghanistan)

Also known as Reef 3894

Where: Ghazni, Afghanistan (34.0° N, 68.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.7° S, 121.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cawak Formation (Nawar Group), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• beds 1-53

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone and lithified packstone

• grey and yellow limestones and sandy limestones, crinoidal limestones, massive limestones, partly rich in brachiopods

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75095: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 23.09.2007, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites "sp. 1" Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Dictyofavosites sp. Chernyshev 1951 tabulate coral
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Staphylopora sp. Le Maître 1956 chaetetid sponge
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
"cf. Stromatoporella sp." = Stromatoporella, "Pseudostromatoporella sp." = Stromatoporella, "Pseudostictostroma sp." = Stromatoporella, Clathrocoilona sp.
"cf. Stromatoporella sp." = Stromatoporella Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
"Pseudostromatoporella sp." = Stromatoporella Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
"Pseudostictostroma sp." = Stromatoporella Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrocoilona sp. Yavorsky 1931 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Bifariostroma sp. Khalfina 1968 stromatoporoid sponge
? Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora concentrica stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Atelodictyidae
Atelodictyon sp. Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrodictyon cellulosum stromatoporoid sponge
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Megastrophia aff. uralensis" = Megastrophia (Megastrophia) uralensis
"Megastrophia aff. uralensis" = Megastrophia (Megastrophia) uralensis de Verneuil 1845