Nilawan, basal Lower Productus-limestone, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.6° N, 72.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.7° S, 55.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Lowest beds of the fossiliferous lower strata of the Productus Limestone (bed 11 of Waagen's unfigured section)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone

• Associated everywhere with many fragments of wood &c, indicating a shore deposit.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. H. Waagen. 1879. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part I. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(1):1-72 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90254: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Cochliodontiformes - Cochliodontidae
Helodopsis abbreviata n. sp.
Helodopsis abbreviata n. sp. Waagen 1879 chimaera
Strophomenata
 Productida -
"Marginifera excavata n. sp." = Marginifera (Arenaria) excavata, "Marginifera echinata n. sp." = Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata
"Marginifera excavata n. sp." = Marginifera (Arenaria) excavata Waagen 1884
"Marginifera echinata n. sp." = Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata Waagen 1884