Where: Pakistan (32.3° N, 71.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° S, 55.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chhidru Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• Uppermost beds of the Productus limestone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A.B. Wynne in 1878-1879
Primary reference: W. H. Waagen. 1880. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part II. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(2):73-183 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90261: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Xystracanthus giganteus n. sp.
Xystracanthus giganteus n. sp. Waagen 1880 elasmobranch | |
Strophomenata | |
"Streptorhynchus distortus" = Kiangsiella distorta
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