Khao Makha (Permian of Thailand)

Where: Thailand (13.6° N, 102.1° E: paleocoordinates 15.1° S, 102.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lepidolina multiseptata foram zone, Khao Taa Ngog Formation, Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)

• Fusulinid Lepidolina multiseptata indicates Capitanian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

• Interpreted to represent a relatively high energy, shallow, warm-water marine paleoenvironment
• Recrystallized bioclastic packstone to wackestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: M. Sone. 2010. A new species of the rare neritopsid gastropod Magnicapitatus from the Guadalupian (Middle Permian) of East Thailand (the Indochina Terrane). Alcheringa 34(1):1-6 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117963: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.09.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Ozawainellidae
Reichelina sp. Erk 1941
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
Kahlerina sp. Kochansky-Devide 1955
 Fusulinoidea - Neoschwagerinidae
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Chusenella sp. Hsu 1942
 Fusulinoidea - Verbeekinidae
 Fusulinoidea - Boultoniidae
Codonofusiella sp. Dunbar and Skinner 1937
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
"Waagenophyllum kueichowense" = Waagenophyllum (Waagenophyllum) kueichowense Huang 1932 horn coral
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Sinopora asiatica Mansuy 1913 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Neritoina - Neritopsidae
Magnicapitatus huazhangae n. sp. Sone 2010 snail