Where: Pakistan (32.3° N, 71.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° S, 55.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chhidru Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• Seems to be among the highest beds of the Productus limestone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, yellow, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. H. Waagen. 1880. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part II. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(2):73-183 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90262: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium herculeum" = Minodentalium herculeum
"Dentalium herculeum" = Minodentalium herculeum de Koninck 1863 tusk shell | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Thaumatacanthus blanfordi n. gen. n. sp.
Thaumatacanthus blanfordi n. gen. n. sp. Waagen 1880 cartilaginous fish |