Where: Tajikistan (39.8° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 74.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dalyan Formation, Pridoli (418.7 - 416.0 Ma)

• upper Dalyan Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. I. Lavrusevich. 1971. Cheshuychatyye rugozy tsentralnogo Tadzhikistana [Fasciculate rugose corals from central Tadzhikistan]. 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)32-41 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78880: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.02.2008