Kilim shale quarry (Permian of Malaysia)

Also known as Bukit Durian Perangin

Where: Malaysia (6.4° N, 99.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 120.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Singa Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone and lithified, calcareous sandstone

• Probably a thin lens of limestone. The bed consists mainly of numerous laminated bryozoa, crinoid stems and some smaller brachiopods all together cemented by calcite. Calcite-cemented fine to very fine sandstone beds.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: B. Basir Jasan, Wan Fuad Wan Hassan, and A. Mohd Shafeea Leman. 1992. The occurrence of bryozoan bed in the Singa Formation, Bukit Durian Perangin, Langkawi. Warta Geologi 18:29-35 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 221710: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Hyphasmoporidae
Streblascopora exillis
Streblascopora exillis Sakagami 1970
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
"Polypora" sp.
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Fenestella" sp.
"Fenestella" sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae
Dyscritella sp.