Vurcha, middle Upper Productus limestone, Salt Range (Fleming coll) (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.5° N, 72.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° S, 56.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Highly probable that the specimen came from the middle region of the upper division of the Productus limestone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal, yellow, argillaceous limestone

• Dark yellow oolitic marly rock containing a number of fragments of other fossils.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by Andrew Fleming in 1848,1852

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 123966: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.02.2012

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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
""Solenopsis" imbricatus n. sp." = Pleurophorus imbricatus
""Solenopsis" imbricatus n. sp." = Pleurophorus imbricatus de Koninck 1863 clam