Where: Ratchaburi, Thailand (13.5° N, 99.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.9° S, 98.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rat Buri Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• The age of the Rat Buri fauna is problematic. "Rat Buri" limestones likely range in age from Kungurian through Capitanian to perhaps Wuchiapingian. Wordian fusulinids appear most common in other collections, but are not found in association with the brachiopod localities. The brachopod fauna is most similar to the Wordian Amb Formation of the Salt Range, in Pakistan, tentatively indicating a Wordian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, argillaceous limestone and lithified, black, argillaceous, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by Waterhouse, Komalarjun, Nakinbodi, Sripatanavat in November, 1964

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse and S. Piyasin. 1970. Mid-Permian brachiopods from Khao Phrik, Thailand. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 135(3-6):83-197 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40954: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2004

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