Sungai Berok, Kuala Betis (Permian of Malaysia)

Where: Kelantan, Malaysia (4.8° N, 101.8° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 108.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Fossils come from an 'olistostrome unit' overlain by the Gua Musang Formation.

•Age given as 'Middle Permian' but close comparison made with the fauna of Sungai Cheroh (Collection No. 111186) so a Wordian age seems likely.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Mohd Shafeea Leman. 1995. Permian ammonoids from Kuala Betis area, Kelantan and their paleogeographic significance. Geological Society of Malaysia Bulletin 38:153-158 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211368: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 15.07.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Palermoceratidae
"Adrianites (Hoffmannia) cf. hoffmanni" = Palermoceras hoffmanni
"Adrianites (Hoffmannia) cf. hoffmanni" = Palermoceras hoffmanni Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Adrianitidae
Adrianites cf. elegans Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae
Agathiceras cf. suessi Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Popanoceratidae
Popanoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Propinacoceras sp. Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite