Barus North Spur, Member B2, Bed 19 (Permian of India)

Where: Kashmir, India (34.0° N, 75.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 59.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: B Member (Zewan Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated, micaceous shale

• Micaceous shale, more or less developed in slaty cleavage, partly finely laminated by sandy intercalation and sometimes strongly bioturbated.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Shimizu. 1981. Upper Permian brachiopod fossils from Guryul Ravine and the spur three kilometres north of Barus. The Upper Permian and Lower Triassic faunas of Kashmir. Palaeontologia Indica New Series 46:66-85 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82587: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Marginifera himalayensis" = Lamnimargus himalayensis
"Marginifera himalayensis" = Lamnimargus himalayensis Diener 1899
 Productida - Productidae
Costiferina indica
Costiferina indica Waagen 1884
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Waagenoconcha abichi" = Waagenoconcha (Gruntoconcha) abichi
"Waagenoconcha abichi" = Waagenoconcha (Gruntoconcha) abichi Waagen 1884
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Spiriferella rajah
Spiriferella rajah Salter 1865
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Euryphyllum cainodon
Euryphyllum cainodon de Koninck 1877 horn coral