Musakheyl, silicified beds, Middle Productus-limestone, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.6° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 55.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

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

• Highly probably that it was collected from the same bed that yielded the other silicified shells that have made the locality celebrated

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by Mogul

• Collected by native servant Mogul and sent by Dr. H. Warth

Primary reference: W. Waagen. 1882. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 1. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(4):329-390 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119742: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
"Dielasma biplex" = Whitspakia biplex, "Dielasma problematicum" = Whitspakia problematica
"Dielasma biplex" = Whitspakia biplex Waagen 1882
"Dielasma problematicum" = Whitspakia problematica Davidson 1862