Where: Pakistan (36.7° N, 74.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° S, 62.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 2 Member (Panjshah Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)
• Assigned to the early Midian on the basis of fusulinids Minojapanella and Lantschichites (although questionably identified). The overlying Kundil Formation contains Kubergandian (Roadian) fusulinids such as Cancellina and Praesumatrina (Flugel & Gaetani, 1991), although these are considered to be reworked by Gaetani et al. (1995). The Kundil Fm also contains conodonts assigned a Murgabian age by Gaetani et al. (1995), although the smooth-platform Mesogondolella species are challenging to use for biostratigraphy. An early Midian (late Wordian) age is retained here.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: All specimens are housed at the Museo di Paleontologia (MPUM) del Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Universtia degli Studi de Milano (Italy).
Primary reference: L. Angiolini. 1995. Permian brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan). Pt. 1 (With Appendix). Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 101(2):165-214 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50724: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 19.05.2005
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Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Compressoproductus cf. mongolicus Diener 1897 | |
Retimarginifera sp. Waterhouse 1970
Retimarginifera gaetanii Angiolini 1995 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Stenoscisma cf. purdoni Davidson 1862 | |
"Stenoscisma aff. armenica" = Hybostenoscisma armenica
"Stenoscisma aff. armenica" = Hybostenoscisma armenica Sokolskaja 1965 | |
Anchorhynchia cimmerica Angiolini 2001 | |
Rostranteris sp. Gemmellaro 1899 | |
Spirigerella sp. Waagen 1883 | |
Attenuatella sp. Stehli 1954 | |
Cartorhium aff. lunwalensis Reed 1944 | |
Tipispirifer cf. psittacus Merla 1934 | |
Martinia sp. M'Coy 1844
Tiramnia aff. tschernyschewi Grunt 1973
Chapursania tatianae n. gen. n. sp. Angiolini 1995 | |
Martiniopsis sp. Waagen 1883 | |
Orthotichia cf. avushensis Sokolskaja 1965 | |
Peltichia sp. Jin and Liao 1981 |