Where: Malaysia (4.5° N, 102.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 107.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Gua Musang Formation, Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)
• Listed as lower and middle Changhsingian (Oldhamina dicipens and Haydenella minuta [local?] zones, respectively), but more likely Capitanian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with pyrite
Collection methods: Bivalves are dominant at MSY14.
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 42734: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.08.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Algae | |
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
Anthozoa | |
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Trilobita | |
? Timoraspis sp. Hahn 1967 trilobite | |
Stenolaemata | |
Cryptostomata indet. Vine 1884 | |
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida Dall 1889 clam | |
"Mytilacea indet." = Mytiloidea
"Mytilacea indet." = Mytiloidea Rafinesque 1815 clam | |
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Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
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"Entolium" sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Crinoidea | |
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