Erawan Hill (Permian of Thailand)

Where: Thailand (14.8° N, 100.9° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 98.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Khao Khad Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• The stratigraphy of this fauna is based on fusulinid foraminifera identified by T. Charoentitirat. Numerous fusulinids representing Verbeekina sp. indicate an Kubergandian age (=Roadian, Middle Permian). [The Kubergandian correlates in part with the Kungurian and in part with the Roadian, although Verbeekina would be more likely in the Roadian part.]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected in 2017, 2018

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Repository: Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University (Bangkok, Thailand)

Primary reference: C. Ketwetsuriya, B. Karapunar, T. Charoentitirat and A. Nützel. 2020. Middle Permian (Roadian) gastropods from the Khao Khad Formation, central Thailand: Implications for palaeogeography of the Indochina Terrane. Zootaxa 4766:1-47 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103565: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda "indet. 1" Cuvier 1795 snail
Gastropoda "indet. 2" Cuvier 1795 snail
 Cycloneritida - Trachyspiridae
Trachyspira eleganta n. sp., "Trachydomia cf. nodosum" = Trachydomia nodosa, Trachydomia suwanneeae n. sp.
Trachyspira eleganta n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
"Trachydomia cf. nodosum" = Trachydomia nodosa Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
Trachydomia suwanneeae n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
 Heterostropha - Streptacididae
? Streptacis khaokhadensis n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
 Trochoidea - Araeonematidae
Yunnania inflata n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
? Ampezzalina sp. Bandel 1993 snail
 Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae
? Pseudozygopleura sp. Knight 1930 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
? Girtyspira sp. Knight 1936 snail
Heterosubulites longusapertura n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
Knightella irregularis Longstaff 1933 snail
Palaeostylus sp. Mansuy 1914 snail
? Donaldospira sp. Batten 1966 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Trypanocochlea lopburiensis n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
Platyzona gradata n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Biarmeaspira mazaevi n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
? Strobeus "sp. 1" de Koninck 1881 snail
? Strobeus "sp. 2" de Koninck 1881 snail
 Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae
Porcellia magninodosa Pan 1985 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Apachella thailandensis n. sp., Peruvispira sp., "Gosseletina microstriata n. sp." = Nemaspira microstriata
Apachella thailandensis n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
Peruvispira sp. Chronic 1949 snail
"Gosseletina microstriata n. sp." = Nemaspira microstriata Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail
Worthenia cf. pagoda Mansuy 1914 snail
Worthenia humiligrada n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
Altotomaria reticulata n. gen. n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis "sp. 1" M'Coy 1844 snail
Naticopsis "sp. 2" M'Coy 1844 snail
? Naticopsis "sp. 3" M'Coy 1844 snail
? Naticopsis "sp. 4" M'Coy 1844 snail
Naticopsis cf. heshanensis Pan and Erwin 2002 snail
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Warthia "sp. 1" Waagen 1880 snail
? Warthia "sp. 2" Waagen 1880 snail
Warthia cf. welleri Yochelson 1960 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
Bellerophon erawanensis n. sp. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020 snail
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
? Holopea sp. Hall 1847 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Araeonema cf. tenuistriata Netchaev 1894 snail
Euomphalus cf. pronodocarinatus Pan and Yu 1993 snail
 Euomphalina - Anomphalidae
? Anomphalus blancus Kues and Batten 2001 snail
Anomphalus cf. vanescens Yochelson 1956 snail
 Euomphalina - Microdomatidae
Microdoma conicum Meek and Worthen 1867 snail