Khund Ghat, lower beds, Upper Productus-limestone, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.4° N, 72.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° S, 55.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chhidru Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Upper division of Productus-limestone. Not subdivided but ammonoid is Wuchiapingian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.B. Wynne

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: W. H. Waagen. 1879. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part I. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(1):1-72 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119650: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
Xenodiscus carbonarius Waagen 1872 ceratite