Bukit Tungku Lembu, Perlis State (Permian of Malaysia)

Where: Malaysia (6.5° N, 100.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.0° S, 111.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chuping Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Brown argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Niko, M. Sone, and M. S. Leman. 2005. A new Permian species of Mooreoceras (Cephalopoda: Orthocerida) from northwestern peninsular Malaysia. Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B 81(8):329-333 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86597: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.02.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Mooreoceras sibumasuense n. sp. Niko et al. 2005