USGS 29614, Chhidru Nala, K4-CM (Triassic of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.6° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° S, 56.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mittiwali Member (Mianwali Formation), Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by Bernhard Kummel

Collection methods: chemical, acetic

Primary reference: I. G. Sohn. 1970. Early Triassic marine ostracods from the Salt Range and Surghar Range, West Pakistan. Stratigraphic Boundary Problems: Permian and Triassic of West Pakistan, Department of Geology, University of Kansas Special Publication 4:193-206 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117951: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Podocopida - Limnocytheridae
? Lutkevichinella ornata n. sp. Sohn 1970 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
? Monoceratina sp. Roth 1928 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
 Palaeocopida - Knightinidae
Carinaknightina carinata n. gen. n. sp. Sohn 1970 ostracod
Carinaknightina discarinata n. sp. Sohn 1970 ostracod