Fossil group
Brachiopods
Brachiopods · Cambrian – Recent
Marine "lamp shells" — shelled invertebrates that resemble clams but have two unequal valves and a distinctive filter-feeding organ, the lophophore. Most lived fixed to the sea floor by a fleshy stalk; they dominated Palaeozoic sea beds and are far less common today.
A broad fossil group rather than a single taxon — the units below record it among their fauna or flora.
Recorded in these units
16- Baroghil Group Ordovician–Silurian Paleozoic
- Ali Masjid Formation Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous (early Frasnian to mid-Tournaisian) Paleozoic
- Nowshera Formation Early Devonian Paleozoic
- Shogram Formation Middle–Late Devonian Paleozoic
- Vandanil Formation Early Devonian (Pragian) Paleozoic
- Darkot Group Late Palaeozoic (Upper Carboniferous–Lower Permian) Paleozoic
- Khyber Limestone Carboniferous–Permian Paleozoic
- Ini Sar Formation Middle Permian (Guadalupian; early Murgabian) Paleozoic
- Sardhai Formation Early Permian (Kungurian) Paleozoic
- Warchha Sandstone Early Permian (Artinskian) Paleozoic
- Ashtigar Formation Jurassic Mesozoic
- Reshit Formation late Middle Jurassic Mesozoic
- Samana Suk Formation Middle Jurassic (Bajocian-Bathonian) Mesozoic
- Surghar Group Early–Middle Jurassic Mesozoic
- Bibai Formation Late Cretaceous Mesozoic
- Moro Formation Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) (Maastrichtian; ~70.02-67.88 Ma) Mesozoic
Found alongside
32Other fossils recorded in the same units.
AcritarchsAlgaeAmmonitesAmmonites (Bouleiceras)AmmonoidsBivalvesBryozoansCalcareous algaeCephalopodsConodontsConodonts (Famennian–Tournaisian zonal fauna)Conodonts (Pandorinellina steinhornensis miae, Ozarkodina spp., Amydrotaxis spp.)CoralsCrinoidsEchinoidsForaminiferaFusulinidsFusulinids (Schubertella, Yangchienia, Chusenella, Neoschwagerina spp.)GastropodsNannofossilsNautiloidsOrbitellaOrbitoidesOstracodsPelecypodsRugosansRugose coralsSphinctozoansStromatoporoidsTabulate coralsTrigonia-type bivalvesTrilobites (Neocalmonia chitralensis, N. batillifera orientalis)