USNM9235, Tapan Wahan, Khisor Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.2° N, 70.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 54.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kalabagh Member (Wargal Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: R. E. Grant. 1968. Structural adaptation in two Permian brachiopod genera, Salt Range, West Pakistan. Journal of Paleontology 42(1):1-41 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 109322: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Cooperinidae
Ceocypea chytrina1 Grant 1972
5 partially silicified, 4 argillaceous casts
 Productida -
"Marginifera ornata" = Marginifera (Marginifera) ornata
"Marginifera ornata" = Marginifera (Marginifera) ornata Waagen 1884
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Leptodus nobilis2 Waagen 1883
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Enteletidae
Enteletes sp.2 Waldheim 1825