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
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 | |
Favosites "sp. 1" Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Dictyofavosites sp. Chernyshev 1951 tabulate coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Staphylopora sp. Le Maître 1956 chaetetid sponge | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
"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 | |
Bifariostroma sp. Khalfina 1968 stromatoporoid sponge
? Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stromatopora concentrica stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Atelodictyon sp. Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrodictyon cellulosum stromatoporoid sponge | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
? Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Megastrophia aff. uralensis" = Megastrophia (Megastrophia) uralensis
"Megastrophia aff. uralensis" = Megastrophia (Megastrophia) uralensis de Verneuil 1845 |