Osman-Dzhaylyau Mountains (Devonian of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (39.5° N, 68.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.1° N, 65.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• organogenic-detrital argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. I. Lavrusevich. 1971. Cheshuychatyye rugozy tsentralnogo Tadzhikistana [Fasciculate rugose corals from central Tadzhikistan]. in Rugozy i stromatoporoidei paleozoya SSSR [Paleozoic Rugosa and Stromatoporoidea of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (2)32-41 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78872: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Aphyllum relictum n. sp. Lavrusevich 1971 horn coral