Khisor Range, unspecified Verchere yellow sandstone loc (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.3° N, 71.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° S, 55.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chhidru Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• The rock in which they are contained, a yellow sandstone with many shelly fragments, clearly indicates that they came from the upper division of the Productus-limestone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Verchere

Collection methods: peel or thin section

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 119719: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
"Allorisma perelegans" = Wilkingia perelegans
"Allorisma perelegans" = Wilkingia perelegans Waagen 1881 clam