Khura, upper region of Middle Productus-limestone, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.5° N, 72.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° S, 55.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper region of middle division

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Waagen. 1881. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part III. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(3):185-328 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119518: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Productus humboldti" = Waagenoconcha humboldti3
"Productus humboldti" = Waagenoconcha humboldti3 d'Orbigny 1842
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
"Lyttonia nobilis" = Leptodus nobilis2
"Lyttonia nobilis" = Leptodus nobilis2 Waagen 1883
upper beds of calcareous series
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia elongata2 Waagen 1883
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Notothyris minuta1 Waagen 1882
thin-bedded limestone
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasmina plicata n. gen.1 Waagen 1882
thin bedded light colored limestone
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
"Orthis indica" = Acosarina minuta4
"Orthis indica" = Acosarina minuta4 Abich 1878
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Fenestella jabiensis" = Fabifenestella jabiensis5, "Fenestella perelegans" = Minilya perelegans5
"Fenestella jabiensis" = Fabifenestella jabiensis5 Waagen and Pichl 1885
"Fenestella perelegans" = Minilya perelegans5 Waagen and Pichl 1885
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula trivialis" = Nuculopsis trivialis
"Nucula trivialis" = Nuculopsis trivialis Eichwald 1860 nut clam
In hard gray limestone
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
"Oxytoma atavum" = Cyrtorostra atavum
"Oxytoma atavum" = Cyrtorostra atavum Waagen 1881 scallop
gray shaly limestone
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Macrodon" geminum Waagen 1881 clam
Thinly-bedded hard gray limestone