ammonites
H.S. Lee Mine No. 8, Kinta Valley near Kampar (Permian of Malaysia)

Where: Perak, Malaysia (4.3° N, 101.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 113.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Misellina claudiae zone, H.S. Lee Formation, Kungurian (279.5 - 272.5 Ma)

• Misellina claudiae zone thought to be of Kungurian age (Jin et al., 1997)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• The fauna is from a light-colored limestone which weathers into a friable white rock resembling chalk (Jones, Gobbett, and Kobayashi, 1966, p. 328).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying

• Only gastropods reported

Primary reference: R. L. Batten. 1985. Gastropods and chitons from Perak, Malaysia. Part 3: the murchisoniids, cerithiids, loxonematids, and subulitids. American Museum Novitates 2829:1-40 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62131: authorized by Alexander Nützel, entered by Alexander Nützel on 13.07.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham