Where: Tajikistan (39.0° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 72.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Turkparidinskaya Formation, Pragian to Pragian (412.3 - 391.9 Ma)

• The Turkparidinskaya Suite has a thickness of 240-340m with a stratigraphic range of Siegenian-Lower Emsian. The listed fossils were collected in the lower part of the suite.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. I. Lavrusevich, V. I. Lavrusevich, and V. D. Saltovskaya. 1973. Daunton i nizhniy devon Zeravshano-Gissarskoy gornoy oblasti. The Downtonian and lower Devonian of the Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region. Sovetskaya Geologiya 12:10-25 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45830: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.12.2004