Phnom Tup, Sisophon (Permian of Cambodia)

Where: Cambodia (13.6° N, 103.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.4° S, 103.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: D Member (Sisophon Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Member D contains Lepidolina multiseptata, Verbeekiella verbeeki, Chusenella cambodgensis, Chusenella globularis

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

• Gray to dark gray bedded limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. I. Ishii and M. Murata. 1974. Khumerspira, a new genus of Bellerophontidae, and some Middle Permian gastropods from Cambodia. Journal of Geosciences, Osaka City University 17(3):73-86 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40947: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Straparollus (? Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus
"Straparollus (? Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus Sowerby 1814 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
"Palaeostylus (? Leptozyga) sp." = Leptozyga
"Palaeostylus (? Leptozyga) sp." = Leptozyga Knight 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia cf. schirjaevensis Stuckenberg 1905 snail