Nila-wan, very lowest fossiliferous bed, Lower Productus-limestone, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Also known as Nilawan

Where: Pakistan (32.6° N, 72.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.7° S, 55.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Amb Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• In certain parts of the ravine this sandstone forms the very lowest fossiliferous bed of the Productus-limestone formation, immediately above the thick Lavender-clays

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray sandstone

• Peppery-gray sandstone with very numerous white spots of porcelaneous earth.

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 119738: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten crebristriatus de Koninck 1863 scallop