Moosakhail (Purdon coll) (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.6° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 55.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• No stratigraphic details given in original paper, but specimens are silicified, suggesting derivation from Kalabagh member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by William Purdon

Primary reference: T. Davidson. 1862. On some Carboniferous Brachiopoda collected in India by A. Fleming, MD, and W. Purdon, Esq, FGS. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 18:25-35 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117782: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

• 17 additional species are listed from Purdon's survey of the Punjab and NE Himalayan districts, but they are not necessarily from Moosakhail.
Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
"Aulosteges dalhousii n. sp." = Aulosteges dalhousi
"Aulosteges dalhousii n. sp." = Aulosteges dalhousi Davidson 1862