MSY13, Gua Musang Formation, Sungai Yu, Merapoh: Capitanian, Malaysia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productidae
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"Dictyoclostus" sp.
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Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Derbyiidae
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Derbyia sp.
Waagen 1884
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Neoretziidae
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Hustedia sp.
Hall and Clarke 1893
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferinida
- Spiriferellinidae
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Crenispirifer sp.
Stehli 1954
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Wellerellidae
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Uncinunellina timorensis
(Beyrich 1865)
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Schizophoriidae
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"Schizophoria" sp.
King 1850
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Geography
| Country: | Malaysia | State/province: | Pahang |
| Coordinates: | 4.6° North, 102.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.8° South, 107.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Guadalupian |
| Stage: | Capitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Capitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 264.28000 - 259.51000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gua Musang | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age originally given as Changhsingian but more likely Capitanian (Campi et al. 2005) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous mudstone |
| Lithology description: Argillaceous lithofacies is dominated by thinly bedded to massive shales and mudstones, interbedded with minor tuffaceous siltstones, sandstones, or pebbly sandstone layers and locally with thin limestone lenses. Slightly metamorphosed and deformed locally. Around Sungai Yu, the fossiliferous shale is commonly thin to thickly bedded and calcareous in nature. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast,mold/impression,original calcite,replaced with pyrite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Only brachiopods. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 42728 | ||
| Authorizer: | D. Bottjer | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-08-04 16:50:37 | Last modified: | 2012-03-31 11:19:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-08-04 16:50:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11358. | M. S. Leman. 1994. The significance of Upper Permian brachiopods from Merapoh area, northwest Pahang. Geological Society of Malaysia Bulletin 35:113-121 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner] |