Doab (Jurassic of Afghanistan)

Also known as PGAP 673

Where: Afghanistan (35.3° N, 68.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.6° N, 75.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Dahanitor Formation, Middle Jurassic (174.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• List compiled from lower, middle and upper parts of the Dahanitor Formation

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: List compiled from Table 21, p. 198 of reference. Supercedes lists 1 and 2 compiled previously from PGAP references 55 and 56: those references were unclear wrt ages of the floras and cannot be used with confidence

Primary reference: R. Wolfart and H. Wittekindt. 1980. Geologie Von Afghanistan 1-500 [A. Rees/A. Rees/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29335: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Radicites
  -
Radicites "sp. 1" PotoniƩ 1893
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
 Czekanowskiales -
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris "sp. 1", "Nilssonia "sp. 1"" = Nilsonia
Taeniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 cycads
"Nilssonia "sp. 1"" = Nilsonia Brongniart 1825 cycads
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Elatides "sp. 1" Heer 1876 yew
 Coniferales - Palissyaceae
Stachyotaxus "sp. 1" Nathorst 1886
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetites "sp. 1" Sternberg 1833
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849 scaly tree fern
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Phlebopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1836
Phlebopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1836
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Ctenis "sp. 1" Lindley and Hutton 1834
  -
Cladophlebis "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis "sp. 2" Brongniart 1849