Guryul Ravine Bed 33, Member D (Permian of India)

Where: Kashmir, India (34.1° N, 75.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° S, 60.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: D Member (Zewan Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: K. Nakazawa, H. M. Kapoor, K.I. Ishii, Y. Bando, Y. Okimura, T. Tokuoka, M. Murata, K. Nakamura, Y. Nogami, S. Sakagami, and D. Shimizu. 1975. The Upper Permian and Lower Triassic in Kashmir, India. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 42(1):1-106 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115369: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Nodosinellidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Palaeolima" middlemissi Nakazawa 1981 file clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
? Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten aff. haydeni Nakazawa 1981 scallop
Etheripecten aff. hiemalis Salter 1865 scallop
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo "sp. a" Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Waagenoconcha purdoni" = Contraspina purdoni
"Waagenoconcha purdoni" = Contraspina purdoni Davidson 1862