Musakheyl, silicified beds, upper 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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Hard light-colored limestones (silicified) in upper division of Middle Productus-limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

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 119830: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Spirifer oldhamianus" = Ovispirifer oldhamianus
"Spirifer oldhamianus" = Ovispirifer oldhamianus Waagen 1883
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae