Chittawan Near Ghari, Lower Fossiliferous Sandstone, Salt Range (Wynne) (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.4° N, 72.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° S, 55.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, sandy carbonate and lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone

• Black, sandy calcareous rock. Hard dark-gray calcareous sandstone, weathering of a rusty color

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.B. Wynne

Primary reference: W. Waagen. 1883. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 2. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(4):391-546 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89227: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.05.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Neospirifer striatiformis" = Crassispirifer striatiformis2
"Neospirifer striatiformis" = Crassispirifer striatiformis2 Zhang 1976
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Spirigerella numismalis
Spirigerella numismalis Waagen 1883
Wynne coll
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
""Productus" semireticulatus" = Dictyoclostus semireticulatus1, "Productus spiralis" = Costiferina spiralis1
""Productus" semireticulatus" = Dictyoclostus semireticulatus1 Martin 1809
"Productus spiralis" = Costiferina spiralis1 Waagen 1884
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
"Strophalosia plicosa n. sp." = Licharewiella plicosa1
"Strophalosia plicosa n. sp." = Licharewiella plicosa1 Waagen 1884
Thousands of specimens
1Waagen 1884; 2Zhang and Jin 1976