Where: Pakistan (36.7° N, 74.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° S, 62.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 2 Member (Panjshah Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Assigned to the early Midian on the basis of fusulinids Minojapanella and Lantschichites (although questionably identified). The overlying Kundil Formation contains Kubergandian (Roadian) fusulinids such as Cancellina and Praesumatrina (Flugel & Gaetani, 1991), although these are considered to be reworked by Gaetani et al. (1995). The Kundil Fm also contains conodonts assigned a Murgabian age by Gaetani et al. (1995), although the smooth-platform Mesogondolella species are challenging to use for biostratigraphy. An early Midian (late Wordian) age is retained here.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: All specimens are housed at the Museo di Paleontologia (MPUM) del Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Universtia degli Studi de Milano (Italy).

Primary reference: L. Angiolini. 1995. Permian brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan). Pt. 1 (With Appendix). Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 101(2):165-214 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50724: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 19.05.2005

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