Kumaranwalla, Dokhs, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (35.8° N, 72.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° S, 60.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chhidru Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• "The specimen was collected in a thin-bedded limestone overlying the main cliff-forming Productus limestones, probably from the Chideru stage of the Upper Productus limestones."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: C. C. Branson. 1935. A labyrinthodont from the lower Gondwana of Kashmir and a new edestid from the Permian of the Salt range. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences 9:19-26 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27264: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 26.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Eugeneodontiformes - Helicampodontidae
Helicampodus kokeni n. gen. n. sp.
Helicampodus kokeni n. gen. n. sp. Branson 1935 chimaera