Jengka Pass M40B (Permian of Malaysia)

Where: Pahang, Malaysia (3.5° N, 102.6° E: paleocoordinates 20.8° S, 105.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Unnamed sandstone-shale member of Permian formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• Purplish, thinly fissile shale layer

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Nakazawa

• Reposited at Kyoto University

Primary reference: K. Nakazawa. 1973. On the Permian fossils from Jengka Pass, Pahang, Malay Peninsula. Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology. Special Volume (Hatai Memorial Volume) 6:277-296 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115251: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Pecopteris sp. Brongniart 1822
"Alethopteris sp." = Pecopteris (Alethopteris) Sternberg 1825
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Calamites sp. Suckow 1784
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Crenispirifer sp. Stehli 1954
 Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
Callispirina sp. Cooper and Muir-Wood 1951
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
"Orthotichia cf. dorashamensis" = Acosarina dorashamensis
"Orthotichia cf. dorashamensis" = Acosarina dorashamensis Sokolskaja 1965
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo "sp. b" Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Palaeoneilo "sp. a" Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia sp. Chernyshev 1951 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Palaeolima sp. Hind 1903 file clam
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Leptochondria sp. Bittner 1891 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten malayensis n. sp. Nakazawa 1973 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Sedgwickia sp. McCoy 1844 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Rimmyjimina sp. Chronic 1952 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
? Palaeostylus sp. Mansuy 1914 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
? Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844 snail