Kiri, uppermost Productus Limestone, Khisor Range (Permian of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.3° N, 71.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° S, 55.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Seems to be among the highest beds of the Productus limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• Very hard calcareous yellowish-gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. H. Waagen. 1880. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part II. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(2):73-183 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90262: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium herculeum" = Minodentalium herculeum
"Dentalium herculeum" = Minodentalium herculeum de Koninck 1863 tusk shell
Chondrichthyes
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Thaumatacanthus blanfordi n. gen. n. sp. Waagen 1880 cartilaginous fish