Paleozoic Period

The Devonian in Pakistan

419 – 359 Ma

From 419 to 359 million years ago — the “Age of Fishes”, the first forests, and the move of life onto land.

In Pakistan

The Devonian appears in the north: the Nowshera Formation near Nowshera preserves reef limestones with corals and stromatoporoids, and the Chitral–Karakoram successions (Shogram, Chilmarabad and related units) are dated by rich conodont faunas.

This reference records 20 units assigned to the Devonian across 3 basins, most commonly metamorphic rocks, limestone, conglomerate.

On the time scale → Correlate provinces → Filter all units →

At a glance

20
units: 3
basins: 4
provinces: 5
georeferenced: 12
with fossils: 16
type localities: 595 m
max thickness: 22
sources

Rock types

metamorphic rocks (9)
limestone (4)
conglomerate (3)
igneous rocks (1)

Based on the primary lithology recorded for each unit; some units span more than one rock type.

Fossils recorded

Brachiopods
Corals
Conodonts (Famennian–Tournaisian zonal fauna)
Brachiopod moulds (poorly preserved)
Conodonts (in beds transitional to the Shogrâm Formation)
Tabulate corals (Thamnopora, Pachycanalicula)
Calcareous alga (Pseudopalaeoporella)
Stromatoporoids
Tabulate corals (Cladopora, Thamnopora, Favosites)
Heliolites
Crinoids
Conodonts (late Famennian)
Conodonts
Ammonoids (rare)
Bivalves
Brachiopods (spiriferids, productoids)
Receptaculites
Cephalopods
Gastropods
nautiloids (Devonian)
Rugose corals
Trilobites (Neocalmonia chitralensis, N. batillifera orientalis)
Conodonts (Pandorinellina steinhornensis miae, Ozarkodina spp., Amydrotaxis spp.)
Tabulate corals

+3 more across the Devonian units.

Units of the Devonian

Provinces — Hazara Basin · Hindukush-Chitral · Karakoram · Khyber–Nowshera Belt.