East of pt 2263, ESE of Chhidru, calcareous sandstone, K30.93-96, Salt Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.5° N, 71.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° S, 56.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chhidru Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Calcareous sandstone and marl above Derbyia hemispherica bed and just below uper Bellerophon bed in middle-upper part of Upper Productus beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Survey of India

Primary reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1944. Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range. Palaeontogica Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series 23(2):1-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126899: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List divided into two groups without explanation.
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
"Foordiceras goliathus" = Foordiceras goliathum, Huanghoceras warchense, "Parametacoceras venustum n. sp." = Pleuronautilus venustus
"Foordiceras goliathus" = Foordiceras goliathum Waagen 1879 nautiloid
K30.95
Huanghoceras warchense Reed 1931 nautiloid
K30.96
"Parametacoceras venustum n. sp." = Pleuronautilus venustus Reed 1944 nautiloid
K30.93, 94