KJ85, Panjshah section, Chapursan valley (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (36.7° N, 74.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° S, 62.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 2 Member (Panjshah Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Assigned to the early Midian on the basis of fusulinids Minojapanella and Lantschichites (although questionably identified). The overlying Kundil Formation contains Kubergandian (Roadian) fusulinids such as Cancellina and Praesumatrina (Flugel & Gaetani, 1991), although these are considered to be reworked by Gaetani et al. (1995). The Kundil Fm also contains conodonts assigned a Murgabian age by Gaetani et al. (1995), although the smooth-platform Mesogondolella species are challenging to use for biostratigraphy. An early Midian (late Wordian) age is retained here.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, muddy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. Angiolini. 2001. Permian brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan), Pt 3. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 107(3):307-344 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50773: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.05.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Plerophyllidae
Paracaninia sp. Chi 1937 horn coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
"Chaetetes" sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Anchorhynchia cimmerica Angiolini 2001
 Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae
Terebratuloidea sp. Waagen 1883
sp. A
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
 Rhynchonellida - Psilocamaridae
"Stenoscisma aff. armenica" = Hybostenoscisma armenica
"Stenoscisma aff. armenica" = Hybostenoscisma armenica Sokolskaja 1965
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Chapursania tatianae Angiolini 1995
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
? Squamularia sp. Gemmellaro 1899
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Rostranteris sp. Gemmellaro 1899