Musakheyl, Salt Range (Permian to of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.6° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 55.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Stratigraphic position unknown, Waagen speculates based on nature of matrix that specimen collected in Upper Productus Limestone (=Chhidru Fm, latest Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian). All other collections from Musakheyl area are also Lopingian in age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: From old collection curated at Calcutta

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 90258: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
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Xystracanthus major n. sp. Waagen 1879 elasmobranch