Sermin area, Johor (Permian to of Malaysia)

Where: Malaysia (2.7° N, 102.9° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 111.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Roadian to Roadian (272.3 - 264.3 Ma)

• Roadian-Early Wordian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, tuffaceous sandstone and lithified siltstone

• about 2 m of brown to purple, tuffaceous, coarse-grained sandstones with intercalated thin black siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Sone, I. Metcalfe, and M. S. Leman. 2003. Palaeobiogeographic implications of Middle Permian brachiopods from Johore (Peninsular Malaysia). Geological Magazine 140(5):523-538 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75569: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.10.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Pseudoleptodus sp. Stehli 1956
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Orthothetina sp. Schellwien 1900
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Neochonetes (Nongtaia) aff. arabicus Hudson and Sudbury 1959
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martiniidae indet. Waagen 1883
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae
Agathiceras sp. Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
? Foordiceras sp. Hyatt 1893 nautiloid
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam