Where: Tajikistan (38.8° N, 68.6° E: paleocoordinates 22.5° N, 54.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Alportian (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• Nm2a2 (corresponds to Alportian); Upper Namurian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: collected by A. S. Pitinova

Primary reference: V. E. Ruzhencev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1978. Namyurskii etap v evolyutsii ammonoidyey - Namurian stage, evolution of ammonoids. Truydi paleontologicheskovo instituta 167:338 pp. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68257: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 12.01.2007