Dhodha Wahan, Bellerophon bed, west of Amb, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.5° N, 71.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° S, 55.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Bellerophon bed of Middle Productus limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Survey of India

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 126260: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Spirigerella praelonga Waagen 1883
var. carinata K32.960
Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis (Neritomopsis) ambiensis n. sp. Reed 1944 snail
K32.958
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
"Euphemus indicus" = Euphemites indicus
"Euphemus indicus" = Euphemites indicus Waagen 1880 snail
K32.954
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon jonesianus" = Waagenella jonesianus, Bellerophon sp.
"Bellerophon jonesianus" = Waagenella jonesianus de Koninck 1863 snail
K32.955
Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
K32.954, 956, 957
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
"Macrochilina avellanoides" = Soleniscus avellanoides
"Macrochilina avellanoides" = Soleniscus avellanoides de Koninck 1863 snail
K32.959