Where: Punjab, Pakistan (32.6° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° S, 56.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kathwai Member (Mianwali Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Bed 3, the lowest bed of the Dolomite unit of the Kathwai Member is 0.9 feet thick, but the sample came from 6 inches above the base.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Grant. 1970. Brachiopods from the Permian-Triassic boundary beds and age of Chhidru Formation, West Pakistan. Department of Geology, University of Kansas Special Publication 4:117-151 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41559: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2004

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