NE of Salmun, Kund, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.4° N, 72.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° S, 55.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Calcareous bands about 40 ft above base of the yellow brown sandstone and shale zone of the ?Upper Productus Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

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 127010: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Chonetes" squama Waagen 1884
K35.875, 880
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
K35.876
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Strophalosia salmunensis n. sp. Reed 1944
K35.877
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Athyris (Cleiothyridina) subexpansa" = Cleiothyridina subexpansa
"Athyris (Cleiothyridina) subexpansa" = Cleiothyridina subexpansa Waagen 1883
var.? K35.879
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
""Spirifer" (Neospirifer) cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
""Spirifer" (Neospirifer) cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836
var. K35.878
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
? Martinia sp. M'Coy 1844
k35.874
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
"Anodontophora" conjugens Waagen 1881 clam
K34.889