Caparay Ghar Section 1C, Bed 34, Wardak (Permian of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (34.1° N, 68.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.7° S, 62.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wardak Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, black, carbonaceous wackestone

• Black carbonaceous bioclastic and gritty limestone, uniformly bedded. Black carbonaceous limestone with diverse facies, more or less interbedded (algal, bioclastic, oolitic, crystalline, sublithographic, etc.) in decimeter-scale beds.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Termier, H. Termier, A.F. Lapparent and P. Marin. 1974. Monographie du Permo-Carbonifère de Wardak (Afghanistan Central). Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon, Hors Série 2:1-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88263: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Capidulina hemisphaerica
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Karavankina wardakensis" = Vediproductus punctatiformis
"Karavankina wardakensis" = Vediproductus punctatiformis Chao 1927
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Sergospirifer marini n. sp.
Sergospirifer marini n. sp. Termier et al. 1974
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Spiriferellina bilotensis
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Notothyris praelecta, Notothyris acuta
Notothyris acuta Reed 1944
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
? Wjatkella cf. grandis
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
? Archimedes sp.
 Cryptostomata - Fenestraliidae
Parafenestralia cf. longa
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon khairliensis" = Pharkidonotus khairliensis
"Bellerophon khairliensis" = Pharkidonotus khairliensis Reed 1944 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Marinopecten caparayensis n. gen. n. sp.
Marinopecten caparayensis n. gen. n. sp. Termier et al. 1974 scallop
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina sp., "Orthomyalina sp." = Myalina (Orthomyalina)
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam
"Orthomyalina sp." = Myalina (Orthomyalina) Newell 1942 clam
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
? Gyroporella sp.
? Gyroporella sp. Gümbel 1872
 Dasycladales - Seletonellaceae
Epimastopora piae
Foraminifera
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Globivalvulina khantarensis
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
Eotuberitina reithlingerae
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae
Geinitzina postcarbonica
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Ammovertella sp.
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Calcitornella sp.