MSY18, Gua Musang Formation, Sungai Toh, Merapoh (Permian of Malaysia)

Where: Pahang, Malaysia (4.5° N, 102.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 107.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gua Musang Formation, Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, tuffaceous sandstone and tuffaceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with pyrite

Primary reference: M. S. Leman. 1994. The significance of Upper Permian brachiopods from Merapoh area, northwest Pahang. Geological Society of Malaysia Bulletin 35:113-121 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42733: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only brachiopods.
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Waagenites sp. Paeckelmann 1930
Neochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
Micraphelia sp. Cooper and Grant 1969
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Dictyoclostus gratiosus" = Transennatia gratiosa, Retimarginifera sp.
"Dictyoclostus gratiosus" = Transennatia gratiosa Waagen 1884
Retimarginifera sp. Waterhouse 1970
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Productida - Productidae
Reticulatia sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Haydenella minuta Sarycheva 1965
 Productida - Rigbyellidae
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Leptodus sp. Kayser 1883
Leptodus nobilis Waagen 1883
"Leptodus cf. tenuis" = Eolyttonia tenuis Waagen 1883
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma sp. Conrad 1839
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Orthida - Enteletidae
Enteletes sp. Waldheim 1825
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Crenispirifer sp. Stehli 1954
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Neophricadothyris sp." = Phricodothyris
"Neophricadothyris sp." = Phricodothyris George 1932
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp. King 1856