Where: Pakistan (32.5° N, 71.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° S, 55.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amb Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Chonetes Bed is in the lower part of the "Lower Productus Limestone" (now Amb Formation), which spans the Wordian-Capitanian boundary. Amb Formation contains conodonts Merrilina praedivergens, M. bitteri, Sweetognathus iranicus.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, black, carbonaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Waagen. 1882. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 1. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(4):329-390 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81501: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2008, edited by Bethany Allen

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