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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Allorisma perelegans" = Wilkingia perelegans
"Allorisma perelegans" = Wilkingia perelegans Waagen 1881 clam |