Where: Pakistan (32.7° N, 73.1° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 165.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kussak Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• Obolus beds. This is probably the Kussak formation (see Ghazi, S., Ahmad, S., Riaz, M., & Zafar, T. (2020). Sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Early Cambrian Kussak Formation, Salt Range, Pakistan. Current Science, 119(10), 1671-1684.)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, micaceous, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.B. Wynne

Primary reference: W. Waagen. 1885. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 5. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(4):729-770 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127608: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.05.2012

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