Camp Staghar glacier front (Permian of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (35.8° N, 76.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 60.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shaksgam Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• No stratigraphic details given in primary reference, but most likely from member 1 of the Shaksgam Formation (sparse brachiopods are also present higher in the formation). Presence of fusulinids Monodiexodina, Minojapanella wutuensis, Parafusulina japonica, and Boultonia suggests an early Guadalupian age for those units.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Desio in 1929

• 1929 Italian expedition to the Karakorum

Primary reference: N. Fantini Sestini. 1965. Permian fossils of the Shaksgam Valley. Italian Expeditions to the Karakorum (K2) and Hindu Kush. IV - Paleontology-Zoology-Botany 149-218 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123272: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.01.2012, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Parafusulina japonica Guembel 1874
Monodiexodina sp. Sosnina 1956
 Fusulinoidea - Boultoniidae
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Gastrioceratidae
? Gastrioceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Orthida - Enteletidae
"Enteletes dieneri" = Enteletes tschernyscheffi Diener 1897
includes ssp. darvasicus
Enteletes cf. elegans Gemmellaro 1899
Enteletes subaequivalvis Gemmellaro 1899
Enteletes waageni Gemmellaro 1899
Enteletes meridionalis Gemmellaro 1899
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma sp. Conrad 1839
Stenoscisma purdoni Davidson 1862
Stenoscisma pinguis Waagen 1883
"Stenoscisma biplicata" = Stenoscisma biplicatum Stuckenberg 1898
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer fasciger Keyserling 1846
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Purdonella merlai n. sp. Fantini Sestini 1965
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia "sp. II" M'Coy 1844
Martinia cf. glabra Sowerby 1821
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Neophricodothyris asiatica" = Phricodothyris asiatica
"Neophricodothyris asiatica" = Phricodothyris asiatica Chao 1929
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Tschernyschewiidae
Tschernyschewia typica Stoyanow 1910
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Paramarginifera cf. himalayensis" = Lamnimargus himalayensis
"Paramarginifera cf. himalayensis" = Lamnimargus himalayensis Diener 1899
 Productida -
"Marginifera cf. typica" = Marginifera (Marginifera) typica, "Paramarginifera cf. gobiensis" = Marginifera gobiensis
"Marginifera cf. typica" = Marginifera (Marginifera) typica Waagen 1884
"Paramarginifera cf. gobiensis" = Marginifera gobiensis Chao 1927
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Cancrinella cancriniformis Tschernyschew 1889
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Compressoproductus sp. Sarytcheva 1960
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Waagenoconcha humboldti d'Orbigny 1842
"Waagenoconcha cf. abichi" = Waagenoconcha (Gruntoconcha) abichi Waagen 1884
"Echinoconchus fasciatus" = Karavankina fasciata Kutorga 1844
 Productida - Productidae
Reticulatia moelleri Stuckenberg 1898
Reticulatia cf. transversalis Tschernyschew 1902
Costiferina spiralis Waagen 1884
 Productida - Productellidae
Krotovia sp. Fredericks 1928
"Marginifera cf. elongata" = Neoplicatifera elongata Huang 1932
Marginifera cf. typica elongata