KK26, Spinji, Chapursan Valley (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (36.8° N, 74.5° E: paleocoordinates 53.0° S, 66.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gircha Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Late Asselian - Early Sakmarian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: All specimens are housed at the Museo di Paleontologia (MPUM) del Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Universtia degli Studi de Milano (Italy).

Primary reference: L. Angiolini. 1995. Permian brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan). Pt. 1 (With Appendix). Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 101(2):165-214 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50590: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.05.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Lyonia sp. Archbold 1983
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta lyonsensis Archbold and Thomas 1986
Trigonotreta larghii n. sp. Angiolini et al. 2005
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer afghanus Termier et al. 1974