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

Where: Tajikistan (39.0° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 73.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Shutskaya Formation, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)

• Lower Emsian; The Shutskaya Suite has a supposed thickness of 500m.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 45791: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 02.12.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Coactilum straeleni
  -
Coactilum cf. straeleni Lecompte 1956
var. devonicum
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Lancicula alta Maslov 1956
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Parathuramminidae
Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Gerronostroma ex gr. lipatovi stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora aff. fedorovi stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites alpina tabulate coral
Favosites stellaris tabulate coral
Favosites goldfussi Lecompte 1939 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae