West side of ridge 1185, 12 feet below top, SE of Musa Khel, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.6° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 55.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper part of Lower Productus beds, about 12 feet below the top russet limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

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 125863: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia buriensis Reed 1944
K32.839, 842
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Aulosteges wynnei Reed 1944
K32.840
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
""Dielasma" hochstetteri" = Hoskingia hochstetteri
""Dielasma" hochstetteri" = Hoskingia hochstetteri Toula 1869
var. personata K32.845
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Athyris (Cleiothyridina) semiconcava" = Cleiothyridina semiconcava
"Athyris (Cleiothyridina) semiconcava" = Cleiothyridina semiconcava Waagen 1883
K32.844
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) undata" = Neospirifer undatus
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) undata" = Neospirifer undatus Reed 1944
Spirifer (Neospirifer) marcoui var. undata K32.841, 843