Khao Phra, Phetchaburi (Permian of Thailand)

Where: Thailand (13.2° N, 99.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° S, 108.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Khao Phra Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• 1.2-1.7 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly, shelly/skeletal, sandy, calcareous mudstone

• Calcareous sandy mudstone with rounded to subrounded pebbles widely scattered, and extremely rich in fenestrate bryozoans

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: G. R. Shi, L. Raksaskulwong, and H. J. Campbell. 2001. Early Permian brachiopods from central and northern peninsular Thailand. Carboniferous and Permian of the World. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 19:596-608 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117765: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Kasetia kaseti Waterhouse 1981
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rugosochonetidae indet. Muir-Wood 1962