Swas, lower beds of Middle Productus-limestone, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.7° N, 71.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 55.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wargal Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Implied by position in description to come from lower beds of Middle Productus-limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Oldham

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 119818: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes morahensis" = Lissochonetes morahensis2
"Chonetes morahensis" = Lissochonetes morahensis2 Waagen 1884
slab of rusty calcareous rock
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Athyris subexpansa" = Cleiothyridina subexpansa1
"Athyris subexpansa" = Cleiothyridina subexpansa1 Waagen 1883
 Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae
Terebratuloidea minor1 Waagen 1883
yellowish-gray marly limestone
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae