Chidru, topmost Productus Limestone, Salt Range (Oldham coll) (Permian of Pakistan)

Also known as Chhidru

Where: Pakistan (32.6° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° S, 56.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• According to the rock in which the specimen is contained, it comes from the top beds of the upper division of the Productus-limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Oldham

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 119723: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Lucina bombifrons Waagen 1881 clam