Isfara Stage, units 1-17, Isfara River S-D section (Silurian to of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (40.0° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.5° S, 74.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Isfara Formation, Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• PJW: Given the age & locality, this is Isfara River formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, black, gray, argillaceous limestone and calcareous siltstone

• "The investigated sections are found at the southern margin of the basin where limestones continuously accumulated during Upper Silurian and Devonian time.."
• various beds including limestones, calcareous aleurolites (i.e. siltstone), clayey limestones, platy limestones, gray and black limestones, crinoidal limestones, pelitomorphic and organo-detrital limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. S. Biske, V. B. Gorianov, and M. A. Rzonsnickaja. 1977. Tien-Shan. In A. Martinsson (ed.), The Silurian-Devonian boundary IUGS Serie(5):227-237 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13976: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 06.05.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Delthyris isfarensis
genus name in quotes
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Eoreticularia tschernyschewi, "Proreticularia carens" = Alaskospira
Eoreticularia tschernyschewi
genus name in quotes
"Proreticularia carens" = Alaskospira
 Athyridida - Retziellidae
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
"Atrypella cf. columbella" = Atrypoidea, "Atrypella camelina" = Atrypoidea, "Atrypella linguata" = Atrypoidea
"Atrypella cf. columbella" = Atrypoidea
"Atrypella camelina" = Atrypoidea
"Atrypella linguata" = Atrypoidea
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favositidae indet. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge