Middle of hill near pt. 1185, bed r slope, K30.768-777, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.6° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° S, 55.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Bed "r". From steep slopes of sandy brittle layers with large productids, below main Fusulina limestone and above lowermost Fusulina calcareous sandstone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1944. Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range. Palaeontogica Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series 23(2):1-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125855: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List for this locality is split into three groups in Reed's paper with no explanation.
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
? Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
K30.776
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae
Hemiptychina sparsiplicata Waagen 1882
var. K30.777
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma ? ambiense Reed 1944
K30.775
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
"Spiriferina (Spiriferellina) sp." = Spiriferellina
"Spiriferina (Spiriferellina) sp." = Spiriferellina
K30.774
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) undata" = Neospirifer undatus
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) undata" = Neospirifer undatus Reed 1944
Spirifer (Neospirifer) marcoui var. undata K30.768, 769
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Martiniopsis sp. Waagen 1883
K30.772
Martiniopsis subpentagonalis Waagen 1883
K30.771
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
"Spirifer (Paeckelmannella) ? niger" = Pteroplecta niger
"Spirifer (Paeckelmannella) ? niger" = Pteroplecta niger Waagen 1883
K30.774
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
"Orthoceras" sp. Breynius 1832
K30.770