SW Zeravshan Mountains (Silurian of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (39.2° N, 68.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° S, 75.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Arg Formation), Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Lesovaya. 1971. Stromatoporoidei pogranichnykh sloyev siluria e devona Zeravshanskogo khrebta [Stromatoporoids from Silurian-Devonian boundary beds of the Zeravshan range]. 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)112-125 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78972: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Atelodictyidae
Intexodictyon aff. perplexum Yavorskii 1963 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon ? numerosum stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Syringostromellidae
Syringostromella incrustanta stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma mincucharica stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Simplexodictyon podolicum stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromellidae
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Plectostroma ex gr. intertextum Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma ? intermedium stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae
Parallelostroma typicum stromatoporoid sponge
Parallelostroma ex gr. typicum stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora ex gr. socialis stromatoporoid sponge
Paramphipora sp. Yavorsky 1955 stromatoporoid sponge